Privacy, Informed Consent, and Participant Observation

The research for this paper was funded by the University of Copenhagen’s Excellence Programme for Interdisciplinary Research as part of the interdisciplinary research project “Social Fabric.” I would like to thank Kelemens Kappel and two anonymous referees for their helpful comments. Also, I have presented the paper at the workshop “Research Ethics and Social Inquiry,” Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland (spring 2015); at the workshop “Current Topics in Philosophy of the Social Sciences,” Univsersity of Washington, Seattle, USA (spring 2015); and at the “Society for Philosophy of Sciences in Practice (SPSP) Fifth Biennial Conference,” University of Aarhus, Denmark (summer 2015). I have benefitted from the suggestions made by the audiences on all these occasions.