[vishnurnair]

At the end of the day, we need scientific research to be reproducible. If you are using some confidential dataset for making conclusions, how will people check if what they are saying is true or not? You have to show your experiment to publications like Nature or Elsevier etc, in order for you to get recognition. I believe the standard should be that anyone can check, if they want. There could be some caveats, but I believe, in most cases, scientific research should be reproducible and the dataset used is very important for reproducibility.

[afandian]

You are making quite broad statements, and they don't seem to take into account the diversity of research and scholarly practice. A lot of what you suggest is happening already, but it's far from perfect. The existing solutions all have trade-offs (legal, cost, social, technological) .

I think it would make for a stronger argument to acknowledge and identify the existing solutions and practice, and evaluate them against your criteria.