MTurk IDs Are Not Anonymous
eagereyes 2016-05-06
Summary:
The worker IDs Amazon’s Mechanical Turk gives you may look pretty random and anonymous, but they can reveal personally-identifiable information. They need to be removed from datasets, especially when they are shared or published. Like many things, I learned this the hard way. Or I would have, had Steve Haroz not caught it in the data … Continue reading MTurk IDs Are Not Anonymous