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The paper presents research results emerging from the analysis of Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPA) log data. Based on the assump-tion that media and data, as part of practice, are produced and used cooperatively, the paper discusses how IPA log data can be used to analyze (1) how the IPA systems operate through their connection to platforms and infrastructures, (2) how the dialog systems are de-signed today and (3) how users integrate them into their everyday social interaction. It also asks in which everyday practical contexts the IPA are placed on the system side and on the user side, and how privacy issues in particular are negotiated. It is argued that, in order to be able to investigate these questions, the technical-institutional and the cultural-theoretical perspective on media, which is common in German media linguistics, has to be complemented by a more fun-damental, i.e. social-theoretical and interactionist perspective.
The Data Governance Act was proposed in late 2020 as part of the European Strategy for Data, and adopted on 30 May 2022 (as Regulation 2022/868). It will enter into application on 24 September 2023. The Data governance Act is a major development in the legal framework affecting CLARIN and the whole language community. With its new rules on the re-use of data held by the public sector bodies and on the provision of data sharing services, and especially its encouragement of data altruism, the Data Governance Act creates new opportunities and new challenges for CLARIN ERIC. This paper analyses the provisions of the Data Governance Act, and aims at initiating the debate on how they will impact CLARIN and the whole language community.
Privacy in its many aspects is protected by various legal texts (e.g. the Basic Law, Civil Code, Criminal Code, or even the Law on Copyright in artistic and photographic works (KunstUrhG), which protects image rights). Data protection law, which governs the processing of information about individuals (personal data), also serves to protect their privacy. However, some information referring to the public sphere of an individual’s life (e.g. the fact that X is a mayor of Smallville) may still be considered personal data (see below), and as such fall within the scope of data protection rules. In this sense, data protection laws concern information that is not private.
Therefore, privacy and data protection, although closely related, are distinct notions: one can violate someone else’s privacy without processing his or her personal data (e.g. simply by knocking at one’s door at night, uninvited), and vice versa: one can violate data protection rules without violating privacy.
The following handouts focus exclusively on data protection rules, and specifically on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, please keep in mind that compliance with the GDPR is not the only aspect of protecting privacy of individuals in research projects. Other rules, such as academic ethics and community standards (such as CARE) also need to be observed.
Twitter data is used in a wide variety of research disciplines in Social Sciences and Humanities. Although most Twitter data is publicly available, its re-use and sharing raise many legal questions related to intellectual property and personal data protection. Moreover, the use of Twitter and its content is subject to the Terms of Service, which also regulate re-use and sharing. This extended abstract provides a brief analysis of these issues and introduces the new Academic Research product track, which enables authorized researchers to access Twitter API on a preferential basis.
The debate on the use of personal data in language resources usually focuses — and rightfully so — on anonymisation. However, this very same debate usually ends quickly with the conclusion that proper anonymisation would necessarily cause loss of linguistically valuable information. This paper discusses an alternative approach — pseudonymisation. While pseudonymisation does not solve all the problems (inasmuch as pseudonymised data are still to be regarded as personal data and therefore their processing should still comply with the GDPR principles), it does provide a significant relief, especially — but not only — for those who process personal data for research purposes. This paper describes pseudonymisation as a measure to safeguard rights and interests of data subjects under the GDPR (with a special focus on the right to be informed). It also provides a concrete example of pseudonymisation carried out within a research project at the Institute of Information Technology and Communications of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
Sometimes legal scholars get relevant but baffling questions from laypersons like: “The reference to a work is personal data, so does the GDPR actually require me to anonymise it? Or, as my voice data is personal data, does the GDPR automatically give me access to a speech recognizer using my voice sample? Or, can I say anything about myself without the GDPR requiring the web host to anonymise or remove the post? What can I say about others like politicians? And, what can researchers say about patients in a research report?” Based on these questions, the authors address the interaction of intellectual property and data protection law in the context of data minimisation and attribution rights, access rights, trade secret protection, and freedom of expression.
The article focuses on determining responsible parties and the division of potential liability arising from sharing language data (LD) containing personal data (PD). A key issue here is to identify who has to make sure and guarantee the GDPR compliance. The authors aim to answer 1) whether an individual researcher is a controller and 2) whether sharing LD results in joint controllership or separate controllership (whether the data's transferee becomes the controller, the joint controller or the processor). The article also analyses the legal relations of parties involved in data sharing and potential liability. The final section outlines data sharing in the CLARIN context. The analysis serves as a preliminary analytical background for redesigning the CLARIN contractual framework for sharing data.
The possibilities of re-use and archiving of spoken and written corpora are affected by personality rights (depending on legal tradition also called: the right of publicity), copyright law and data protection / privacy laws. These recommendations include information about legal aspects which should be considered while creating corpora to ensure the greatest archivability and re-usability possible in compliance with current laws.
The information compiled here shall serve researchers who plan to create corpora or who are involved in evaluation of such measures as a guideline. This information is not exhaustive or to be considered as legal advice. Researchers should consult institutional legal departments and management before making legally relevant decisions. That said, further legal expertise should be sought if possible as early as project planning phases.
Grundlage dieses Artikels* 1 ist das Verbundprojekt „Nachhaltigkeit linguistischer Daten“ der drei Sonderforschungsbereiche 441, 538 und 632, dessen Ziel es ist, Lösungen für die nachhaltige Verfügbarkeit der an den SFBs vorhandenen Korpora zu entwickeln. Ein zentraler Aspekt betrifft die Klärung der Rechtslage für die Nutzung und Weitergabe linguistischer Ressourcen, die durch das Urheber- sowie das Datenschutzrecht geschützt sind. Eine als indifferent wahrgenommene rechtliche Situation wird in der Praxis oft als das entscheidende Hindernis für die Weitergabe linguistischer Daten angeführt. Tatsächlich jedoch sind Nutzung und Weitergabe von Daten zu wissenschaftlichen Zwecken normativ geregelt. Problematisch ist oftmals die Einordnung der speziellen linguistischen Daten als Schutzgegenstand sowie die Tatsache, dass an linguistische Daten und Datensammlungen aufgrund ihrer komplexen und vielschichtigen Beschaffenheit durchaus mehrere Urheber Rechte besitzen können, die sich auf verschiedene Inhalte beziehen. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über das geltende Recht sowie die juristischen und natürlichen Personen, die potentiell Rechte an linguistisch aufbereiteten Datenkollektionen besitzen. Es ist nicht Gegenstand dieses Artikels, rechtsverbindliche Aussagen zu treffen, die auf eine Nutzung und Weitergabe jedweder Daten angewandt werden. Der Artikel orientiert sich in seiner Struktur und thematischen Tiefe bewusst nicht an einem juristischen Publikum, sondern beschreibt die Problematik aus geisteswissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Zusammen mit einem Überblick über das vom Umgang mit linguistischen Datensammlungen betroffene Recht, das Urheberrechtsgesetz (Abschnitt 1) und das Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (Abschnitt 2), wird in den jeweiligen Abschnitten auch eine Klassifikation der Daten aus juristischer Sicht vorgenommen. Anschließend werden Lösungsansätze vorgestellt, die im Rahmen des o. g. Verbundprojektes erarbeitet werden (Abschnitt 3).
Digital Text Collections, Linguistic Research Data, and Mashups: Notes on the Legal Situation
(2008)
Comprehensive data repositories are an essential part of practically all research carried out in the digital humanities nowadays. For example, library science, literary studies, and computational and corpus linguistics strongly depend on online archives that are highly sustainable and that contain not only digitized texts but also audio and video data as well as additional information such as metadata and arbitrary annotations. Current Web technologies, especially those that are related to what is commonly referred to as the Web 2.0, provide a number of novel functions such as multiuser editing or the inclusion of third-party content and applications that are also highly attractive for research applications in the areas mentioned above. Hand in hand with this development goes a high degree of legal uncertainty. The special nature of the data entails that, in quite a few cases, there are multiple holders of personal rights (mostly copyright) to different layers of data that often have different origins. This article discusses the legal problems of multiple authorships in private, commercial, and research environments. We also introduce significant differences between European and U.S. law with regard to the handling of this kind of data for scientific purposes.
Die folgenden Ausführungen zur Maskierung basieren auf den Erfahrungen bei der Aufbereitung der Daten des Forschungs- und Lehrkorpus Gesprochenes Deutsch (FOLK) für die Veröffentlichung in der Datenbank für Gesprochenes Deutsch (DGD). Sie sollen anderen Forschern und Forschungsprojekten als praktische Hilfestellung für die Maskierung von Aufnahmen dienen, können aber selbstverständlich nicht die gesamte Bandbreite von Einzelfallentscheidungen und Pflichten der Forschenden abdecken.
Es werden sowohl allgemeine Hinweise zur Maskierung von Audio- und Videoaufnahmen gegeben als auch praktische Tipps zur Umsetzung der Maskierung mit dem Transkriptionseditor FOLKER.
Die in den Ausführungen geschilderten arbeitsteiligen Prozesse in größeren Projekten können in kleineren Projekten einzelner Forscher selbstverständlich auch von einer einzelnen Person ausgeführt werden.