I have a contact at cmu's student journal (for what that's worth). They might be interested in this, maybe if they start prodding around the researchers will realize the mistake. What's the publication?
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Oh, wow.. I wasn’t expecting that reply. I was actually looking to discuss in general how to address this variety of issue. It was a few years ago but I suppose the code could still be interesting. I dug this up:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2911988
And now that I dug back into this, I must make a correction. ACM replied to say they are looking for the missing material.. then they never found it and they dropped the ball at that point and also neglected correct the description. AFAIK, ACM did not try to reach the researchers, who ignored my inquiries.
(Irrelevant trivia: ACM used to be in Cloudflare’s access-restricted walled garden, making it difficult to access research. They are still in that shitty place but at least they are now whitelisting Tor which slightly reduces their exclusivity.)
Provide a link to the paper
its from 2016. I doubt they have the code anymore. 🤷
They could try to say that but I doubt people would believe it.
Who throws away their own code particularly when it’s not junky commercial code but code their heart and soul was behind on a non-profit project? I keep my old code around if anything just to be able to search it to re-teach myself coding and design tips I forgot about. This code backs their research which they may need to refer to when a prospective employer asks for detail on how they executed the study.
Thats a you decision. Many people dont actually care about their phd or research studies. And this particular one looks very throw away.
Who funded the research? They probably have the source code and want to keep it proprietary.
Maybe the acknowledgments gives a hint?
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to thank Kelly Idouchi, Manya Sleeper, James T. Graves, and Celine Berger for their contributions to this project. Similarly, we thank Chris Hoofnagle, Daniel Solove, and the attendees of the 2014 Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) for valuable feedback on an earlier version of this work.
(edit) there is also this about page and perhaps this lab was involved.