Academic-industry partnerships allow researchers to launder around ethics review boards.

Evidence

Grimmelmann imagined “Internal Review Board laundering,” in which academics could “circumvent research ethics regulations whenever they work just closely enough with industry partners. The exception would swallow the Common Rule.” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 952

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces and defines ‘Internal Review Board laundering’ as a mechanism by which corporate exemption corrodes academic ethical oversight.