{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/marvinmarnold/stingraymappingproject.org/issues/8","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/marvinmarnold/stingraymappingproject.org/issues/8/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/marvinmarnold/stingraymappingproject.org/issues/8/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/marvinmarnold/stingraymappingproject.org/issues/8/events","html_url":"https://github.com/marvinmarnold/stingraymappingproject.org/issues/8","id":98229375,"number":8,"title":"Contaminating data by making public in real time","user":{"login":"janedupuy","id":13575695,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13575695?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy","html_url":"https://github.com/janedupuy","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/marvinmarnold/stingraymappingproject.org/labels/data","name":"data","color":"bfd4f2"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/marvinmarnold/stingraymappingproject.org/labels/research","name":"research","color":"bfe5bf"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-07-30T18:12:14Z","updated_at":"2015-07-30T19:52:14Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Becky: \"I am happy to sign on as a faculty sponsor though providing the data in real time is a bit unprecedented in social science research and probably not terribly strategic (for the purpose of research, not advocacy).  There is a real risk of contamination if you’ve got people who are using the app, tracking the use of Stingrays, and either participating in or avoiding events because of Stingray use (and/or other forms of surveillance).  I absolutely applaud your interest in making the data immediately and publicly available.  But at the same time, I think that muddies the meaning – and ultimately utility – of the data for research.\""},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/marvinmarnold/stingraymappingproject.org/issues/comments/126455544","html_url":"https://github.com/marvinmarnold/stingraymappingproject.org/issues/8#issuecomment-126455544","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/marvinmarnold/stingraymappingproject.org/issues/8","id":126455544,"user":{"login":"janedupuy","id":13575695,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13575695?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy","html_url":"https://github.com/janedupuy","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/janedupuy/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-07-30T19:52:14Z","updated_at":"2015-07-30T19:52:14Z","body":"No action steps related to this but sharing my answer anyway in case you have thoughts to add:\r\n\r\nRe: the trouble with providing the data in real time, are you thinking of the map on the website or the data download feature (which would be a spreadsheet)? The latter, intended for other researchers for transparency’s sake, could possibly be left out. It sounds as though you’re talking more about the map, though, and it’s pretty central to the project. I don’t expect it to muddy the data much, because we imagine that people will primarily pick up Stingrays either in their neighborhoods (where they’d in theory need to be in any case) or at protests. I doubt that people would avoid demonstrations because they’ve become aware of the threat of Stingrays through this project, since they’ll have the assurance of knowing that their phones will notify them if they’re being hacked and since they could also put their phones in airplane mode if they don’t want it to happen at all. I’m not sure whether anyone would attend an event that they wouldn’t otherwise have attended just because they want to check for Stingrays, but our main base of users will probably be activists, so it’s likely that Stingrays detected at protests would have been detected by another user in any case. But even if I’m wrong about all of that, I guess it’s a problem we’ll just have to contend with and discuss if we write a paper about this data. "}}