Citizen Scientists Investigating Cookies and App GDPR compliance
CSI-COP
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Project description
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires organisations to safeguard personal data and uphold the privacy rights of anyone in EU territory. Citizen scientists can play a valuable role in ensuring privacy getting a better understanding of what information is tracked online. The EU-funded CSI-COP project will mobilise citizen scientists from across Europe and beyond to investigate the different types of trackers in cookies and apps. The project will offer training material to informally instruct citizen scientists on the GDPR, aiming to produce a taxonomy of trackers that will subsequently be used to create an open-access repository.
Project website: http://csi-cop.eu/
Project page on CORDIS: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/873169
University of Oulu press release: https://www.oulu.fi/en/news/new-citizen-science-eu-funded-research-and-…
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Newsletters
- Contents: CSI-COP’s project introduction. Update on the project at the end of its first year. Interview of CSI-COP Advisory Board member, Professor Darlene Cavalier. Open document in PDF format
- Contents: Updates on the project, including the availability of the free, online informal education course about ‘Your Right to Privacy Online‘. Open document in PDF format
- Contents: Interview on misinformation and fake news with Vian Bakir, Professor in Journalism. Project’s first real-time and free online course ‘Your Right to Privacy Online‘. Open document in PDF format
- Contents: Updates on recent and planned informal education workshops based on CSI-COP’s MOOC. Trivia in this edition shows a link between the citizen science project’s acronym and the prolific science fiction author, Isaac Asimov. Open document in PDF format
- Contents: Updates on consortium partner gathering in Patras, Greece, December 2021. Information on forthcoming free half-day informal education workshops, based on CSI-COP’s ‘Your Right to Privacy Online‘ course. Open document in PDF format
- Contents: Updates and partner activities. Fascinating interview of a citizen scientist, Alice Sheppard. Find out how citizen science participation boosts confidence and helps to advance science. Open document in PDF format
- Contents: Project purpose. Free Informal education ‘Your Right to Privacy Online’ course/MOOC. Partner updates. Big Cookie Count event. Project achievements, future events. Interview with Dr. Emma L. Briant, a researcher on Netflix documentary ‘The Great Hack’, CSI-COP partners. Open document in PDF format (Emma Briantin haastattelu suomeksi.)
- Contents: Project purpose. Free educational resource ‘Your Right to Privacy Online’/MOOC. Project updates. Partner Activities. European Researchers’ Night. Interview with three of CSI-COP’s role models and Principal Investigators. CSI-COP partners. Open document in PDF
- Contents: Project purpose. Free educational resource ‘Your Right to Privacy Online’/MOOC. Project updates. ‘Best Innovative Privacy Project’ Piccaso Privacy award. Partner Activities. Guest Interview: CSI-COP Citizen Scientist. Meet more of CSI-COP team members. CSI-COP partners. Open document in PDF
- Contents: Project purpose. Free educational resource ‘Your Right to Privacy Online’/MOOC. Project updates. Partner Activities. Guest Interview: CSI-COP Citizen Scientist Lyndsey Birnsteel. Meet junior members of CSI-COP team. CSI-COP partners. Open document in PDF
- Project purpose. Free educational resource ‘Your Right to Privacy Online’/MOOC. App tracking in the news. Project updates. Partner Activities. Guest Interview: CSI-COP Citizen Scientist Felix Arion. Meet Matthias Pocs from CSI-COP partner STELAR. CSI-COP partners. Open document in PDF
- Project purpose. Free educational resource: ‘Your Right to Privacy Online’/MOOC. Special edition news of CSI-COP’s main dissemination and results exploitation held in Brussels across 23-26 May 2023. CSI-COP partners. Open document in PDF
Project trainings
Course
CSI-COP’s free informal online course (MOOC, massive online open course) "Your right to privacy online" is available in several languages, including English and Finnish, at https://csi-cop.eu/informal-education-mooc/ The course can be taken online (currently in English only) or downloaded as a document (in: Catalan, Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish).
Educational game
The Cookie Mansion educational game developed by the Czech Technical University in Prague and localized in collaboration with the University of Oulu to Finnish and inclusive Italian is available for free download on the webpage of the developer.
Events
The Big Cookie Count: Kansalaistiede ja evästeet. UOULU hosted the workshop in Finnish and Italian.
The University of Oulu team hosted the Finnish and Italian sessions at the four-day project's main event in Brussels.
Project results
Achievements
CSI-COP project team won the Piccaso Privacy awards in the category ‘Best Innovative Privacy Project’: https://www.piccasoprivacyawards.com/alumni. Other organisations shortlisted in the same category included the Nokia, PwC, and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO, the UK data protection authority), among others.
Scientific articles
Hadad, Shlomit; Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Maayan; Shah, Huma; Rigler, Dorottya; Celentano, Ulrico; Tiensuu, Henna; Röning, Juha; Vallverdú, Jordi; Csabella, Eva Jove; Stepankova, Olga; Gialelis, John; Lantavou, Konstantina; Ignat, Tiberius; Masone, Giacomo; Winter, Jaimz; Dumitrasco, Marica (2023) Modeling intrinsic factors of inclusive engagement in citizen science: Insights from the participants' survey analysis of CSI-COP. Plos One. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-202312153861
Deliverables
Huma Shah, Eva J. Casabella, Jordi Vallverdú, Mária Hinsenkamp, Dorottya Rigler, Ulrico Celentano, Olga Stepankova, Tiberius Ignat, Yiannis Gialelis. Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet (2023) Parent-teacher round tables. H2020-SwafS-15-2018-2019 873169 CSI-COP project deliverable D6.5. https://csi-cop.eu/project-results/d6-5-parent-teacher-and-students-engagement/
Yiannis Gialelis, Huma Shah, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Mária Hinsenkamp, Dorottya Rigler, Tiberius Ignat, Olga Stepankova, Ulrico Celentano, Jaimz Winter, Aggeliki Karakonstanti, K. (Nantia) Lantavou, Deniz Özdemir (2023) Citizen science stakeholder cafés. H2020-SwafS-15-2018-2019 873169 CSI-COP project deliverable D6.4. https://csi-cop.eu/project-results/d6-4-stakeholder-engagement/
Huma Shah, Yiannis Gialelis, Ilias Konstantinopoulos, K. (Nantia) Lantavou, Aggeliki Karakonstanti, Dorottya Rigler, Olga Stepankova, Adriana Ignat, Ulrico Celentano (2023) Taxonomy of digital cookies and online trackers. H2020-SwafS-15-2018-2019 873169 CSI-COP project deliverable D5.1. 29 Mar. https://zenodo.org/record/7801846
Olga Stepankova, Huma Shah, Deniz Özdemir, Robin L. Pierce, Yiannis Gialelis, Mária Hinsenkamp, Dorottya Rigler, Ulrico Celentano, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Jordi Vallverdú, Nantia Lantavou, Mariana Evram, Ana Hriscu (2020) CSI-COP framework. H2020-SwafS-15-2018-2019 873169 CSI-COP project deliverable D2.3. 30 Sep. https://zenodo.org/record/4066515
Mária Hinsenkamp, Dorottya Rigler, Olga Stepankova, Huma Shah, Yiannis Gialelis, Robin Pierce, Ulrico Celentano, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Jordi Vallverdú, Deniz Özdemir (2020) Guidelines for diverse citizen science recruitment. H2020-SwafS-15-2018-2019 873169 CSI-COP project deliverable D2.2. 30 Jun. Keywords: app, citizen science, data privacy, demographic data, digital divide, diversity, equality, European Union, gender, information society, Internet access, Internet usage, social participation, socio-economic factors, voluntary activities. https://zenodo.org/record/3923820
Tiberius Ignat, Olga Stepankova, Huma Shah, Ulrico Celentano, Maayan Zhitormsky-Geffet, Yiannis Gialelis, Robin Pierce, Jordi Vallverdú, Damla Bal, Sanja Persic, Julia Bencze, Daniel Wyler, Deniz Özdemir (2020) CS research report - Public report on current methods in CS engagement. H2020-SwafS-15-2018-2019 873169 CSI-COP project deliverable D2.1. 30 Apr. Keywords: citizen science, cookies, data collection, dark patterns, data protection, data protection laws, digital divide, ePrivacy, GDPR, gender, geographical location, motivation, privacy, privacy-by-default, privacy-by-design, socio-economic factors, tracking. https://zenodo.org/record/3899478
More deliverables on the results page on the consortium website.
Datasets
International citizen scientists WP4 investigations on websites: DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7472957
International citizen scientists WP4 investigations on apps: DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7472879