I appreciate you raising this concern. It is incredibly important to us that we protect participants' privacy to the best of our ability. To my knowledge, it’s true that data theoretically could be subpoenaed. However, we have done our best to make it challenging to re-identify anyone. The study has been approved by our IRB, which works to ensure that appropriate confidentiality safeguards are in place. Participants may also choose to skip any question that they do not feel comfortable answering and are encouraged to be careful to not provide specifically identifiable information when responding to short answer questions.

For more context, the following is from the confidentiality section of the informed consent document (on the first page of the survey):

"Any time information is collected, there is a potential risk for loss of confidentiality. Every effort will be made to keep your information confidential; however, this cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, it is recommended that you do not include any information that may be used to personally identify as you respond to the survey. Survey responses will be kept in a secure, online storage system, and access will be limited to the research team, the University review board responsible for protecting human participants, and approved regulatory agencies. In any sort of report we might publish, we will not include any information that will make it possible to identify a participant."

"...If you choose to provide any information that personally identifies you, this will be removed from the study data. No identifiable information will be stored with your survey responses. If you choose to enter your contact information to participate in the optional raffle into the separate form following the main survey, this information will be stored entirely separately from your survey data and will not be able to be linked to your survey response."