Research Ethics
3 posts tagged with “Research Ethics”
Data retention and the right to erasure in practice
How long study data may be kept, when a participant can have it deleted, and where the research exceptions in the GDPR apply. With the retention and deletion options in Open Lab, and what to write in an ethics application.
5 October 2026
A researcher's guide to GDPR-compliant online data collection
An overview of the GDPR provisions that apply to a browser-based study: who is responsible for the data, which legal basis to use, what participants must be told, what an online study records without being asked, where the data are stored, and what to put in an ethics application.
5 October 2026
Three encryption options for online studies: what Open Lab offers and how to choose
Open Lab lets each study use one of three encryption options: end-to-end encryption with your account key, a self-managed study key you download and hold, or server-side encryption where the platform manages the keys. They differ in who can read the data, what happens if a key is lost, and how much friction they add to analysis.
24 August 2026