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Research on legal risk experiences — seeking interviewees

Academic research exploring the legal risks security researchers face when discovering and reporting vulnerabilities. If you've experienced legal threats or prosecution related to security research, your story could help shape better protections.

Research on legal risk experiences — seeking interviewees

We’re doing a research project to document researchers’ lived experiences of legal risk under US and UK law. If you’ve experienced legal risks under US or UK law, and can spare an hour or two of your time, we may be interested in interviewing you. We’re interested in good experiences, bad experiences, and anything in between — including any experience where you had to think seriously about legal risks, even if nothing more came of it.

Please reach out if you’d be open to speaking with us, or have any questions. I’m @sunoo.33 on Signal or sunoo.park@nyu.edu by email (feel free to pass on to anyone who might be interested). We keep all participants anonymous and would be happy to work with you to address any specific concerns.

Thanks so much for considering contributing to our research.

About us: This is a collaboration between Sunoo Park (me) and Daniel Thomas. We’re professors at New York University and the University of Strathclyde, and you can find more info about us at our webpages linked above.


Cross-posted from the Disclose.io Community Forum: https://community.disclose.io/t/research-on-legal-risk-experiences-seeking-interviewees/916