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DATE: September 12, 2026 at 12:08PM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

TITLE: Studies May Promise Anonymity, But the Promise Is Often Broken

URL: http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=191361&url=https://www.science.org/content/article/social-science-studies-may-promise-anonymity-participant-identities-often-lurk-public

Source: Science

Economist Abel Brodeur was leading a group of colleagues examining a survey-research study when they noticed something that stunned them. Its data set, available in a public repository, contained names of people who had admitted to crimes and identified their accomplices, information never provided to police. This broken promise of anonymity, it turns out, was far from an isolated case, according to a new study released last week.

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