Paper accepted at the Annual Privacy Forum 2024

Our paper “How to Drill into Silos: Creating a Free-To-Use Dataset of Data Subject Access Packages” by Nicola Leschke , Daniela Pöhn, and Prof. Frank Pallas has been accepted for the Annual Privacy Forum 2024. In the paper, we examine the question of why internet users make little use of their right to data access. One reason for this is the lack of research in the field of data disclosure. Technical solutions that simplify data access and enable informative applications for the data they contain have hardly been developed to date, as researchers do not have access to the relevant data sets. Therefore, in our paper we present a method for generating such datasets. We demonstrate the practical applicability by creating an initial dataset of directory assistance data from two individuals with five accounts each at major online services. These contributions are intended to promote further technical research in the area of information rights.

A pre-print of the paper is available on Arxiv and the data can be requested via Zenodo.