so are there any laws around conducting research that i, a lonely peasant not affiliated with any institutions, am required to follow?
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Yesy!! Safety and privacy checks, high or low ethics checklist depending on the type of research :)
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The ethics checklist is attached to laws, I know there are laws for people with disability under the global human rights act, I think the cautions your take there are extended to all participants such as right to information, signing consent forms and privacy of their data
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Pretty sure these are professional standards rather than laws. So if you don’t belong to the relevant profession I can’t see how they’d apply.
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The same privacy laws that apply to any activity also apply to research. That said, I am not aware of any specific privacy regulations for research purposes on top of those that always apply. At least not in any jurisdictions that I have experience with (EU).
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