The Who, What, and Why: Data Transparency Notices in the UK

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Title

The Who, What, and Why: Data Transparency Notices in the UK

Subject

open data
transparency
privacy
semantic web
Data Protection
Privacy

Description

Data protection laws require organisations to be transparent about how they use personal data. This article explores the potential of machine-readable privacy notices to address this transparency challenge. We analyse a large source of open data comprised of semi-structured privacy notifications from hundreds of thousands of organisations in the UK, to investigate the reasons for data collection, the types of personal data collected and from whom, and the types of recipients who have access to the data. We analyse three specific sectors in detail; health, finance, and data brokerage. Finally, we draw recommendations for possible future applications of open data to privacy policies and transparency notices.

Creator

Binns, Reuben
Millard, David
Harris, Lisa

Source

Journal of Open Access to Law; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2015)
2372-7152

Publisher

Journal of Open Access to Law

Date

2015-03-22

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed article
Empirical study

Identifier

Citation

Reuben Binns, David Millard and Lisa Harris, The Who, What, and Why: Data Transparency Notices in the UK, Journal of Open Access to Law, 2015, accessed November 25, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/602

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