My brother, how many examples do you need? Without mentioning the 30s and 40s, look at the Tuskegee Experiment where men were given syphilis intentionally and withheld treatment to study it's spread in black populations. Or the San Francisco Operation Sea-Spray when dangerous bacterial were sprayed over the entire city to study it's effects on the population. Ethical frameworks exist to prevent people from harming others in the pursuit of data, because if they aren't prevented they will. I order to prevent this harm from being done, a clearly defined set of principles must be stated and written down so that everyone involved can have the same understanding when designing and approving studies.
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You can inspect my comment history. An LLM agent with the proper scraping tools and integrations could answer the question "identify all accounts on lemmy which have expressed a negative view of (insert government), search those accounts for any personally identifying information including photographs and accounts on other websites which they link to more than three times, and create a database of these accounts" in a tiny fraction of the time it would take a human to perform this same task.