Privacy Impact Assessments for Digital Repositories

Trustworthy data repositories ensure the security of their collections. We argue they should also ensure the privacy of researcher and research subject data. We demonstrate the use of a privacy impact assessment (PIA) to evaluate potential privacy risks to researchers using the ICPSR’s Researcher Pa...

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Main Authors: Abraham Mhaidli, Libby Hemphill, Florian Schaub, Jordan Cundiff, Andrea K. Thomer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2022-05-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Curation
Online Access:http://www.ijdc.net/article/view/753
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description Trustworthy data repositories ensure the security of their collections. We argue they should also ensure the privacy of researcher and research subject data. We demonstrate the use of a privacy impact assessment (PIA) to evaluate potential privacy risks to researchers using the ICPSR’s Researcher Passport as a case study. We present our workflow and discuss potential privacy risks and mitigations for those risks. [A previous version of this article is available as an IDCC2020 Conference Paper] 
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spelling doaj.art-bc2be20bb1b348498260198c49c44e1b2022-12-22T02:52:56ZengUniversity of EdinburghInternational Journal of Digital Curation1746-82562022-05-0116110.2218/ijdc.v15i1.753Privacy Impact Assessments for Digital RepositoriesAbraham Mhaidli0Libby Hemphill1Florian Schaub2Jordan Cundiff3Andrea K. Thomer4School of Information, University of MichiganInstitute for Social Research, University of MichiganSchool of Information, University of MichiganSchool of Information, University of MichiganSchool of Information, University of MichiganTrustworthy data repositories ensure the security of their collections. We argue they should also ensure the privacy of researcher and research subject data. We demonstrate the use of a privacy impact assessment (PIA) to evaluate potential privacy risks to researchers using the ICPSR’s Researcher Passport as a case study. We present our workflow and discuss potential privacy risks and mitigations for those risks. [A previous version of this article is available as an IDCC2020 Conference Paper]  http://www.ijdc.net/article/view/753
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