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The article focuses on the protection-inclusion dilemma in qualitative research findings. Topics include the disproportionate harm of the COVID-19 pandemic to racialized communities; the need to diversify study participant; and center marginalized perspectives, and the challenges of anonymizing qualitative data and representing the testimonies of underrepresented groups in research results.

The authors comment on a study by M. Pyrrho et al which propose a more control-based account where privacy is about having the agency determine who should have access to which part of ourselves through our data. Topics include concerns related to their focus on data transparency to protect privacy, their advocacy for increased transparency to data-sharing practices as a significant step to rebalancing power between individuals, and power disparity between major technology companies and users.

The article comments on the call from Rachel Fabi and Daniel Goldberg for greater funding parity between the ethics of specialized medical technologies and broader, population health ethics, especially as they relate to issues of race, racism and health disparities as indicated in their 2022 article. Topics include the concern with the lack of sufficient funding of research into social determinants of health and the need to motivate people to attend issues on social impacts of their work.