Abstract:
Research opportunities have been expanded and the feasibility of doing research and
accessibility to data has been increased over the past few decades with the
development of online platforms and digital tools. The use of the online platform to
collect data has become a popular mode recently with the COVID-19 pandemic. The
researchers and ethics review committees both need to be aware of the measures to
be taken to implement ethically sound online research. Moreover, researchers need
to understand that though the data collection is done differently, basic ethical
principles (autonomy, justice, beneficence and non-maleficence) apply to any
research endeavour (WMA, 2013).
