Mechanical Turk is Not Anonymous
Mechanical Turk is Not Anonymous
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10.2139/ssrn.2228728
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2013-03
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Matthew Lease;J. Hullman;Jeffrey P. Bigham;Michael S. Bernstein;Juho Kim;Walter S. Lasecki;Saeideh Bakhshi;Tanushree Mitra;Robert C. Miller
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Matthew Lease;J. Hullman;Jeffrey P. Bigham;Michael S. Bernstein;Juho Kim;Walter S. Lasecki;Saeideh Bakhshi;Tanushree Mitra;Robert C. Miller
虽然亚马逊的土耳其机械（AMT）在线员工被许多人认为是匿名的，但我们揭示了AMT系统设计的一个方面，可以利用它来揭示关于许多AMT员工的惊人数量的信息，其中可能包括个人身份信息（PII）。这种PII暴露的风险可能会让今天的许多工作者和请求者感到惊讶，也会影响目前机构审查委员会（IRB）对涉及AMT工作者作为参与者的人类受试者研究的监督。我们评估这种PII暴露对每个利益相关者群体的潜在多方面影响：工作人员、请求者和AMT本身。我们讨论了每个小组可能探索的潜在补救措施，以及每个小组在隐私保护方面的责任。这一讨论使我们进一步将群体工作人员的隐私问题置于更广泛的道德、经济和监管问题中，并通过向每个利益相关者群体提出一组建议来结束。
While Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (AMT) online workforce has been characterized by many people as being anonymous, we expose an aspect of AMT’s system design that can be exploited to reveal a surprising amount of information about many AMT Workers, which may include personally identifying information (PII). This risk of PII exposure may surprise many Workers and Requesters today, as well as impact current institutional review board (IRB) oversight of human subjects research involving AMT Workers as participants. We assess the potential multi-faceted impact of such PII exposure for each stakeholder group: Workers, Requesters, and AMT itself. We discuss potential remedies each group may explore, as well as the responsibility of each group with regard to privacy protection. This discussion leads us to further situate issues of crowd worker privacy amidst broader ethical, economic, and regulatory issues, and we conclude by oering a set of recommendations to each stakeholder group.