Open AccessNothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear? Tools and Suggestions for Digital Data Protection
Author(s) -
Jedidiah Anderson,
Erik Skare,
Courtney Dorroll
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2018.3328
Subject(s) - nothing , subject (documents) , internet privacy , computer security , computer science , engineering ethics , sociology , public relations , political science , engineering , world wide web , epistemology , philosophy
The developing cyber-infrastructure has provided new tools, methods, and opportunities to conduct research. However, the Snowden leaks and subsequent developments proved that the same infrastructure has made all-encompassing surveillance possible – posing new challenges for researchers when engaging with those they are obligated to protect. As the cyber-infrastructure simultaneously opens up new possibility-spaces for circumventing structures of surveillance, while drawing on the authors’ own experiences, this article presents a number of tools and suggestions that will aid the researcher to engage more responsibly and safely with the research subject digitally.