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What your ethics board will ask about smartphone sensor data

Background location and health-sensor collection raise ethics questions that questionnaire templates do not prepare you for: what runs continuously, what the phone's permission prompts actually say, what happens when a participant revokes access, and why each stream needs the resolution you chose. Seven questions committees ask, and what a usable answer looks like.

SMAAT Team
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