Prof. Dr. Jens Großklags

Chair of Cyber Trust at the Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich

Jens Grossklags holds the Associate Professorship for Cyber Trust and directs the Chair of Cyber Trust at the Department of Informatics.

Previously, he led the Security, Privacy and Information Economics Lab, and served as the Haile Family Early Career Professor at the Pennsylvania State University. Prof. Grossklags was also a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy, and a Lecturer of Computer Science at Princeton University. In 2009, he completed his doctoral dissertation at UC Berkeley’s School of Information advised by Professors John Chuang (chair), Teck-Hua Ho, Deirdre Mulligan and Hal Varian. While at UC Berkeley, he also obtained master’s degrees in Computer Science, and Information Management and Systems.

jens.grossklags@tum.de
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Digital society

“There is a need for further education regarding the right to data portability”

News
28 July 2023

After completing their project, Susanne Mayr, Jens Großklags, and Johann Kranz discuss their findings on data portability in this interview.

Digital competition

Learning from the ‘frontrunner’? A multidisciplinary analysis of the Chinese Social Credit System and its impact on Germany

Project

The project investigated the opportunities and risks derived from China’s SCS-driven digital transformation.

Digital competition

Awareness, motivation and implementation of data portability – Enabling radical and disruptive innovation through enhanced data portability (amiDaPo)

Project

The project investigated how data portability can be implemented in order to improve competition between online services and data-driven innovations.

Digital competition

Data Portability between Online Services

Publication

The working paper looks at users’ requirements for the right to data portability and shows how switching between online services could be facilitated.

Digital politics

Nudge Units and Data-driven Nudging

Blog
5 July 2021

The past decade has witnessed a global trend of using nudging to intractable policy problems. To date, nudging has been applied in a range of different spheres such as public health, taxation and environmental protection; it is considered…

Digital politics

Piggybacking data

News
4 December 2020

The right to data portability is hardly known and difficult to implement. A bidt project is investigating how users can gain more control over their own data.

Digital competition

“A huge experiment”

News
17 March 2020

The social points system has an impact beyond China. What data is collected and what the system means for German companies and institutions like the World Bank is being investigated in bidt’s project “Learning from…

Publications

  • Bombik, Patrick; Wenzel, Tom; Grossklags, Jens; Patil, Sameer (2022)

    A Multi-Region Investigation of the Perceptions and Use of Smart Home Devices

    Conference paper
    Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Volume: 2022, Nr. 3, P. 6-32
    DOI: 10.56553/popets-2022-0060
    Project: amiDaPo
  • Chen, Mo; Grossklags, Jens (2020)

    An Analysis of the Current State of the Consumer Credit Reporting System in China

    Conference paper
    PoPETs (Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies), Volume: 2020, Nr. 4, P. 89-110
    DOI: 10.2478/popets-2020-0064
    Project: CSCS
  • Kranz, Johann; Kübler-Wachendorff, Sophie; Syrmoudis, Emmanuel; Grossklags, Jens; Mager, Stefan; Luzsa, Robert; Mayr, Susanne (2023)

    Data Portability

    Journal article
    Springer Gabler, Business & Information Systems Engineering., Volume: 2023, Nr. 65, P. 597-607
    DOI: 10.1007/s12599-023-00815-w
    Project: amiDaPo
  • Kranz, Johann; Kuebler-Wachendorff, Sophie; Syrmoudis, Emmanuel; Grossklags, Jens; Mager, Stefan; Mayr, Susanne

    Data Portability: Conceptualization, Architectures, and Implications. Business & Information Systems Engineering

    Unclear document type
    Project: amiDaPo
  • Luzsa, Robert; Mayr, Susanne; Syrmoudis, Emmanuel; Grossklags, Jens; Kübler-Wachendorff, Sophie; Kranz, Johann (2022)

    Datenportabilität zwischen Online-Diensten: Nutzeranforderungen und Gestaltungsempfehlungen

    Ergebnisse einer bevölkerungsrepräsentativen Befragung

    Grey literature / report
    bidt, bidt Working Paper, Nr. 5, P. 1-38
    DOI: 10.35067/bv16-2z31
    https://www.bidt.digital/publikation/datenportabilitaet-zwischen-online-diensten/
    Project: amiDaPo
  • Rupp, Eduard; Syrmoudis, Emmanuel; Grossklags, Jens (2022)

    Leave No Data Behind – Empirical Insights into Data Erasure from Online Services

    Conference paper
    PoPETs (Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies), Volume: 2022, Nr. 3, P. 437-455
    DOI: 10.56553/popets-2022-0080
    Project: amiDaPo
  • Chen, Mo; Grossklags, Jens (2022)

    Social Control in the Digital Transformation of Society

    A Case Study of the Chinese Social Credit System

    Journal article
    Social Sciences, Volume: 11, Nr. 6, P. 229
    DOI: 10.3390/socsci11060229
    Project: CSCS
  • Chen, Mo; Engelmann, Severin; Grossklags, Jens (2023)

    Social Credit System and Privacy

    Contribution / chapter
    Trepte, Sabine; Masur, Philipp, The Routledge Handbook of Privacy and Social Media, P. 227-236, New York, Routledge
    ISBN: 9781003244677
    Project: CSCS
  • Kuebler-Wachendorff, Sophie; Luzsa, Robert; Kranz, Johann; Mager, Stefan; Syrmoudis, Emmanuel; Mayr, Susanne; Grossklags, Jens (2021)

    The Right to Data Portability: conception, status quo, and future directions

    Journal article
    Springer, Informatik Spektrum, Volume: 44, Nr. 4, P. 264-272
    DOI: 10.1007/s00287-021-01372-w
    Project: amiDaPo
  • Marsch, Maximilian; Grossklags, Jens; Patil, Sameer (2021)

    Won’t You Think of Others?: Interdependent Privacy in Smartphone App Permissions

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume: 5, P. 1-35
    DOI: 10.1145/3479581
    Project: amiDaPo