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Rally Study Privacy Consent Notice

You are invited to participate in a research study.

Research Question

Local newspapers are an essential link in the chain of democratic accountability, but changes in the economics of news production and consumption threaten their survival. This project aims to measure both the accountability impact of, and consumers' willingness to pay for, investigative journalism by local outlets, enhancing our understanding of the political consequences of changes in the economics of news media as well as informing future choices about alternative funding models.

Public Interest

Journalism, and especially local reporting, is a vital component of a functioning democracy. However, the traditional model of funding local journalism has been failing in recent years and local publications have been shutting down in startling numbers. The aim of our project is to investigate the feasibility of alternative models of funding and sustaining local journalism in the internet age.

Study Procedures

During the study, your browser will automatically send data to Mozilla about how you engage with health and news websites, in addition to standard Firefox telemetry. We have taken a number of steps to minimize and protect this data, which we describe below. You may also be asked to participate in periodic surveys. If you choose to provide demographic information for Mozilla Rally research purposes, that information will also be used for this study.

Data Collection

Data will be collected through a custom browser plug-in that is developed collaboratively between the teams at Stanford and Mozilla. The plug-in will be offered on a voluntary basis to a pool of browser users that have opted in to the Mozilla Rally experience. If a participant opts in to the study, they will install the plug-in and data will be collected through browser telemetry. Mozilla will store the data on Google Cloud where all analysis will be conducted. This server is restricted to the research team and Mozilla. The server is encrypted. Data will be transferred between the participant's browser and the Mozilla analysis database protected by TLS.

Time Involvement

This research will take one year.

Risks and Benefits

We cannot and do not guarantee or promise that you will receive any benefits from this study. There are no individual risks or benefits for participants.

Payments

No payment is provided.

Participant's Rights

If you have read this form and have decided to participate in this project, please understand your participation is voluntary and you have the right to withdraw your consent or discontinue participation at any time without penalty or loss of benefits to which you are otherwise entitled. The alternative is not to participate. You have the right to refuse to answer particular questions. The results of this research study may be presented at scientific or professional meetings or published in scientific journals. Your individual privacy will be maintained in all published and written data resulting from the study.

Leaving the Study

You can leave the study at any time from the Mozilla Rally options page. To access the page, click on the Rally button rally icon in your browser toolbar. The button is usually near the top right of the browser window. If you have removed the Rally button from your toolbar, you can also access the Rally options page from the browser’s Add-ons settings. The Rally options page will show you a list of studies that you are currently enrolled in. You can leave this study by clicking the “Leave Study” button on the associated study card. If you leave the study, the study’s browser extension will be automatically uninstalled, removing the study code and data from your browser. We will also automatically delete the data that your browser has submitted for the study, unless you allow us to retain that data. You may not be able to rejoin the study if you leave. If you leave Rally, you will also leave the studies that you are enrolled in, including this study.

Confidentiality

Your private information collected as part of the research, even if identifiers are removed, will not be used or distributed for future research studies.

Privacy

We will protect the information that you provide in several ways: minimizing the data we collect, keeping the data we collect secure, and limiting the information we use and disclose.

Contact Information

Questions: If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about this research, its procedures, risks and benefits, contact the Protocol Director, Gregory Martin by phone at 650-498-3321 or by email at gjmartin@stanford.edu.

Independent Contact: If you are not satisfied with how this study is being conducted, or if you have any concerns, complaints, or general questions about the research or your rights as a participant, please contact the Stanford Institutional Review Board (IRB) to speak to someone independent of the research team at (650)-723-2480 or toll free at 1-866-680-2906, or email at IRB2-Manager@lists.stanford.edu. You can also write to the Stanford IRB, Stanford University, 1705 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306.

Please print a copy of this page for your records.

If you agree to participate in this research, please click “Accept & Participate”.