Despite the ubiquity of social media and technology use in the general
population and increasing efforts to integrate technology into research
practices, little regulatory guidance exists on using technology
in clinical research [93,127,129]. In 2012, the Office for Human Research
Protections (OHRP) held a series of meetings and presentations on the
topic promising forthcoming guidance, but it has yet to be published.
OHRP has one training webinar for institutional review boards (IRBs)
on this subject, providing some light regarding privacy/confidentiality
and implications for internet research in human subject protections
(http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=13932&bhcp=1).