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Introduction
Oliver Watteler currently works at the department Data Services for the Social Science (DSS) at GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences. Oliver does research on matters of Research Data Management and Data Protection.
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July 1999 - June 2001
Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung (ZA)
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- Historical Indicators of Innovation
Education
October 2020 - September 2025
October 1993 - June 1999
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Publications (24)
This paper is intended as an aid for linguists and other researchers wishing to compile and publish collections of social media data. Based on the example of the Corpus of Political Tweets by Trump and US Senators (PoTTUS), it demonstrates potential technical steps for obtaining social media data and discusses the requirements social media data nee...
Der Einführungsband ins wissenschaftliche Arbeiten für Studierende der Sozialwissenschaft führt durch den gesamten Prozess der Erstellung einer Arbeit: von der Entwicklung einer Fragestellung über den Umgang mit Daten bis hin zum fertigen Text. Die einzelnen Schritte des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens werden verständlich und umfassend erklärt. Besond...
Human subject research projects generate personal data about the individuals participating in these projects. Although this type of research data is primarily used for scientific purposes, the processing of data from or about research participants might also have unintended or negative consequences for those participants. These consequences might f...
Daten sind von größter Bedeutung für die Sozialwissenschaften, um Forschungsfragen bearbeiten und Hypothesen untersuchen zu können. Die in Forschungsvorhaben, in der Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik, oder in Prozessen des täglichen Lebens, der öffentlichen Verwaltung, oder in Sozialen Medien entstandenen Daten, sog. Sekundärdaten, können häufig nac...
GESIS bietet Forscher/innen ein breites Angebot an Dienstleistungen rund um quantitative empirische Daten der Sozialforschung. Unter anderem ermöglicht das Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften Zugang zu über 6000 Studien, zu denen auch Erhebungen mit Relevanz für die Kinder- und Jugendhilfe gehören. Das Kapitel bietet einen Einblick in die Arb...
In den Sozialwissenschaften wird oft mit personenbezogenen und eventuell sensiblen Daten von Studienteilnehmer/innen geforscht. Erhebung, Verarbeitung und Nutzung von personenbezogenen Daten unterliegen dann datenschutzrechtlichen und forschungsethischen Bestimmungen.
Ziel dieses Kapitels ist es, sozialwissenschaftlichen Forscher/innen die grundleg...
Surveys are a common method in the social and behavioral sciences to collect data on attitudes, personality and social behavior. Methodological reports should provide researchers with a complete and comprehensive overview of the design, collection and statistical processing of the survey data that are to be analyzed. As an important aspect of open...
This is a brief presentation (in German) on the current state of data protection regulations held during the 9th DINI/nestor expert workshop on legal questions concerning research data.
Ein wertvoller Leitfaden für Studierende ab dem 1. Semester. Als einziger Einführungsband ins wissenschaftliche Arbeiten für Sozialwissenschaftler führt dieses Buch durch den gesamten Prozess der Erstellung einer Arbeit: von der Entwicklung einer Fragestellung über Literaturrecherche, Textarbeit, Hypothesenbildung und Datenrecherche bis hin zur Nie...
Eine Vielzahl sozialwissenschaftlicher Einrichtungen bietet Zugang zu Forschungsdaten. Die Autoren berichten aus der Praxis der Anonymisierung bei der Datenarchivierung und stellen das Konzept von Secure Access beim GESIS Datenarchiv für Sozialwissenschaften vor.
[Article is in German. Full text: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2266]
Qualitative data in the social sciences and economics have new requirements for their use in research practice. Funding agencies require more long-term archiving of data. The standards of "good scientific practice" expect data access beyond the r...
This is a technical report in German concerning privacy and data protection issues when archiving social science research data. It offers an overview of the legal situation and nine examples of individual studies or reserach designs with specific privacy issues and possible solutions.
Qualitative data in the social sciences and economics have new requirements for their use in research practice. Funding agencies require more long-term archiving of data. The standards of "good scientific practice" expect data access beyond the research project. Furthermore, international journals expect published research results to be more transp...
Social science is comprised of various specialized disciplines which deal with inquiries into societal issues. Investigations of social reality require data. These are acquired in a variety of ways and means and frequently made available to other research projects. In order for data to be made accessible to others, they must be appropriately docume...
Short overview of what can be understood as social science research data and where to find it.
Basic introduction to scientific work in the social sciences.
Chapter on privacy protection issues in qualitative social research with individuals.
The IASSIST Wiki – a Copyleft Solution for the 4th Decade
Acht Jahre nach der telefonischen Befragung von Soziologieprofessoren in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz fand eine Wiederholungsbefragung dieser Personengruppe statt. Grundlage der Befragung war eine Adressdatei von 442 Namen, Adressen, Telefonnummern und E-Mail-Adressen von Professoren der Soziologie in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schw...
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Question (1)
I am looking for case studies of actual privacy risks. At the core of privacy and data protection impact assessments, we find the concept of 'risk' meaning - in this case - the probability of a threat to personal data and the possible harm or damage caused by this threat. E.g. I fall victim to a phishing attack and the attacker gains access to my bank account, the actual harm being that my account is emptied. Another example would be that my account at a social media platform is hacked and my identity is used to "go shopping".
Now, one finds a lot of literature on privacy (PIA) and data protection impact assessments (e.g. the edited volume by Wright and De Hert (2012) on PIA), on the potential risks of low levels of data security (e.g. Rosner, Kenneally (2018): Clearly Opaque: Privacy Risks of the Internet of Things), on technological and organization standards (e.g. ISO 27001 on Information security management), or on the regulatory frameworks of privacy and data protection (e.g. everything on the details of the GDPR in the EU). But I have a hard time to find research results evaluating actual risks similar to your risk to fall victim to a traffic accident, have your home being broken into, or get cancer.
I would welcome any hint to empirical publications on actual privacy risk analysis be it from medical, social, internet-based or any other research that you consider as most important. I am *not* looking for literature on how to conduct privacy and data protection impact assessments or standards for this purpose. Thank you.
