Protecting Research Confidentiality : Towards a Research-Participant Shield Law
| العنوان: | Protecting Research Confidentiality : Towards a Research-Participant Shield Law |
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| المؤلفون: | Ted Palys, John Lowman |
| المصدر: | Canadian journal of law and society. 21:163-185 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2006. |
| سنة النشر: | 2006 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Sociology and Political Science, Research participant, Law, Confidentiality, Sociology |
| الوصف: | La protection de la confidentialite des recherches est un principe integral de toutes les sciences sociales, ainsi que des codes d'ethique de l'humanite. Mais que se passerait-il si une juridiction exigerait l'acces a des informations confidentielles sur des recherches, tant dans le cas de litiges au civil, que pour des affaires criminelles? Au Canada, seules les informations provenant des recherches de Statistiques Canada jouissent de ce privilege relatif a la preuve—une juridiction ne peut exiger une divulgation. Tous les autres chercheurs devront faire appel a la common law afin de proteger des recherches confidentielles. Il leur appartiendrait, pour chaque cas, d'apporter la preuve de la necessite de garder confidentielle toute information sur ces recherches, avec le risque malheureux qu'une juridiction ordonne leur divulgation. Cet article decrit cinq problemes decoulant de l'etat du droit. Les protections juridiques de la confidentialite de la recherche ont encore beaucoup de chemin a parcourir avant de resoudre ces problemes. Mais comment se presenteront ces protections? Qui aura a les gerer? La deuxieme partie de cet article examine les protections legislatives des privileges relatifs a la preuve, y compris la Loi sur les statistiques, et la Loi canadienne sur la preuve, ainsi que les « certificats de confidentialite » (pour certains types de recherches en sante) et les « certificats de vie privee » (pour certaines enquetes criminelles) des Etats-Unis, en vue d'etablir des criteres permettant l'etablissement d'une loi protegeant la recherche canadienne. Protecting research confidentiality is an integral principle of all social sciences and humanities ethics codes. But what if a court were to want access to confidential research information, either in pursuit of civil litigation or a criminal case? In Canada, only Statistics Canada research information enjoys an evidentiary privilege—a court cannot compel its disclosure. All other researchers would have to turn to common law to defend confidential research. The onus would be on them to prove on a case-by-case basis that confidential research information should remain confidential, thereby creating the possibility that a court might order its disclosure. The first part of the article identifies five problems arising from this current state of the law. Statute-based protections of research confidentiality would go a long way toward resolving these problems. But what would these protections look like? Who would administer them? The second half of the article examines statute-based protections of evidentiary privilege, including the Canadian Statistics Act and Canada Evidence Act, and US "confidentiality certificates" (for certain kinds of health research) and "privacy certificates" (for certain kinds of criminological research) with an eye toward formulating criteria that a Canadian research shield law might emulate. |
| تدمد: | 1911-0227 0829-3201 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::22bb3e5c12bd5f325fcd17997bc072cd https://doi.org/10.1353/jls.2006.0040 |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........22bb3e5c12bd5f325fcd17997bc072cd |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19110227 08293201 |
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