[Rdap] Data resulting from biosafety-related research: to publicly share or not?

[Shorish, Yasmeen L - shorisyl]

Hi Jon,

Is the concern here that making this data available would make it easier for ‘bad actors’ to misuse the information to harm others, i.e. use the data to weaponize pathogens? Or that the data could be used to undermine public safety be misrepresenting the data?

Depending on the relative risk, it may be more prudent to provide mediated access to the data. I don’t think there are fantastic rules for how we approach these scenarios from an ethics perspective, but think that we should be cognizant of the potential harms and relative likelihood of that harms when advising researchers about data sharing.

I haven’t looked into it, but maybe WHO or some biomed societies have recommendations? They may be more practice-related and not publication-related, but could be relevant?

Yasmeen

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From: <rdap-bounces at kunverj.com> on behalf of Jonathan Petters <jpetters at vt.edu>
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Date: Friday, July 24, 2020 at 16:21
To: "Research Data, Access and Preservation" <rdap at kunverj.com>
Subject: [Rdap] Data resulting from biosafety-related research: to publicly share or not?

Hi all,

In working with a researcher who studies the airborne transmission of pathogens, I'm wondering about the ethics/rules around the public sharing of data resulting from such biosafety-related research.

I've been looking around for clear guidance, and the most I've found so far is a vague statement from Nature: "It is a condition of publication that authors deposit their data in an appropriate repository, and agree to make the data publicly available without restriction, excepting reasonable controls related to human privacy or biosafety."

Anyone else here have more clear guidance from an institution/funder/journal that I've been unable to find?

I can ask our IBC contact here on campus, but thought I'd ask the hivemind first :)

Jon
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