This article addresses the question of how ‘Country of Origin Information’ (COI) reports—that is, research developed and used to support decision-making in the asylum process—can be published in an ethical manner. The article focuses on the risk that published COI reports could be misused and thereby harm the subjects of the reports and/or those involved in their development. It supports a situational approach to assessing data ethics when publishing COI reports, whereby COI service providers must weigh up the benefits and harms of publication based, inter alia, on the foreseeability and probability of harm due to potential misuse of the research, the public good nature of the research, and the need to balance the rights and duties of the various actors in the asylum process, including asylum seekers themselves. Although this article focuses on the specific question of ‘how to publish COI reports in an ethical manner’, it also intends to promote further research on data ethics in the asylum process, particularly in relation to refugees, where more foundational issues should be considered.

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在庇护程序中以道德方式发布原产国信息 (COI)

本文解决了如何以合乎道德的方式发布“原产国信息”(COI) 报告（即，研究开发并用于支持庇护程序中的决策）的问题。本文重点关注已发布的 COI 报告可能被滥用从而损害报告主题和/或参与其开发的人员的风险。它支持在发布 COI 报告时评估数据道德的情景方法，其中 COI 服务提供商必须权衡发布的好处和危害，尤其是基于研究的潜在滥用、公共利益造成的损害的可预见性和可能性研究的性质，以及平衡庇护程序中各个参与者的权利和义务的必要性，包括寻求庇护者本身。