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Big data analytics and revision of the common rule

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Reconsidering traditional research ethics given the emergence of big data analytics.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 59, Issue 7
      July 2016
      118 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/2963119
      • Editor:
      • Moshe Y. Vardi
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