[wtallis]

> The fact that information comes from a human does not make something a human subject experiment. The information has to be about a human.

The experiment is collecting more information than just survey results about CCPA policies. They're also collecting and evaluating information about how humans respond to their legal threats vs how they respond to less pointed inquiries from academics. If this study was merely ordinary survey methodology with questions that aren't asking about humans, it wouldn't be human subject research. But they have actually gone outside the bounds of a mere survey with the deception and threats.