Question: Comment on the ethics of the following situations.
a. A respondent tells an interviewer that she wishes to coop-erate with the survey, but her time is valuable and, therefore, she expects to be paid for her responses.
b. An academic researcher performs basic research based on Facebook comments from guys talking about female acquaintances using salacious terms.
c. A manager for a data service firm asks a researcher for the IP addresses of research respondents to a short consumer survey investigating factors leading to the likelihood of changing service providers.
d. An online dating company stores the GPS locations of users, tracks their whereabouts, and sells an app that offers users an alert when a lot of "daters" are within a 10-minute radius.