I need assistance from people involved in academic research (especially those who use my datasets for research purposes). Before I release the next version of the Pushshift API, I need to create procedures and a privacy statement that deals with users who request to be removed
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from the data dumps and API. I need help in creating cogent disclosure statements that let researchers know that data was removed at the request of a user while retaining some metadata within the datasets. If anyone can assist me with this, it would be greatly appreciated.
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My thoughts on this are censoring out the author name first and foremost -- but I don't know if the body content itself should also be removed. I would also need to create addendums along with the monthly data dumps detailing how data was modified to keep researchers informed.
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