Maintaining the Privacy and Security of Research Participants’ Data

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Summary: Maintaining participants’ data privacy and security before, during, and after data collection is critical to the user-research process. It protects participants from data breaches and cyber threats.

With the rise of global action around data privacy and protection laws, researchers need to think about how participant privacy is maintained before, during, and after a research study. While the data collected is valuable to researchers, it is even more important to the participants in a research study. It is our responsibility to make sure we do not violate research- ethics principles and we respect participant involvement every step of the way.

Why Protecting Participant Data Is Important

As data collection and dependence on the Internet have risen, so have data breaches and cyber threats. Research participants are more vulnerable than ever as researchers conduct remote usability tests , use third party applications, or store and share data online. In 2021, according to Politico , nearly 50 million people in the U.S. faced a health-data breach. Data breaches pose huge privacy and security concerns for consumers and cost the health-care industry billions of dollars. To avoid such data losses and privacy infringements, regardless of industry, we need to develop privacy and security practices that seamlessly fit into the user-research process.

Key Terms

Data-privacy terminology isn’t always the easiest to understand. Before discussing best practices for data privacy and protection, we need to define a few terms.

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