复制数据包常比论文本身包含更多个人隐私细节

The breaches are an unexpected consequence of a push to tackle a so-called reproducibility crisis. Because independent testers have failed to reproduce as many as half of studies in some fields, many social science journals require or encourage authors to publicly post the data used for their studies. But those replication packages often contain more personal detail than the papers they support. And many social scientists are still learning how to adequately protect privacy when assembling them, says Kirsten Morehouse, a postdoctoral researcher in computational psychology at Columbia University. “There’s a lack of education about how severe the consequences [of privacy violations] can be.” …