nettime's_automaton on Thu, 3 Jul 2014 18:45:38 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Amazon Mechanical Turk to require US SSN/EIN |
http://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/comments/28cexz/mechanical_turk_to_require_ssnein_for_requesters/ Amazon will soon begin to require requesters to provide an SSN or EIN in order to post a HIT. I have a feeling this is going to dramatically change the landscape of Turk. On the one hand, we'll likely see less "scammy" hits now and fly-by-night posters. However, on the other hand, I worry this will significantly impact academic research HITs and I wonder if this will have any impact on international research HITs (ie, those from the UK or AUS). Here's a copy of the email I just got from Amazon: http://i.imgur.com/LIQjfts.png # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org