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Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research on the Internet 
Many IRBs recognize their unfamiliarity with the nature of Internet research and their lack of technical expertise needed to review related research protocols. To both protect human subjects and promote innovative and scientifically sound research, it is important to consider the ethical, legal, and technical issues associated with this burgeoning area of research.
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Online Experiments: Ethically Fair or Foul? 
Online experiments may be helping researchers gather more data faster than ever before, but those advantages are coming with greater ethical challenges--threats to participant confidentiality, questions over whether the participants really understand what they're getting into and the possibility that less scrupulous researchers could steal your ideas.
Azar, Beth. Monitor on Psychology (2000). Articles>Research>Ethics>Online
