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.
“There is a need for further education regarding the right to data portability”
After completing their project, Susanne Mayr, Jens Großklags, and Johann Kranz discuss their findings on data portability in this interview.
Learning from the ‘frontrunner’? A multidisciplinary analysis of the Chinese Social Credit System and its impact on Germany
The project investigates the opportunities and risks derived from China’s SCS-driven digital transformation.
Awareness, motivation and implementation of data portability – Enabling radical and disruptive innovation through enhanced data portability
The project investigates how data portability can be implemented in order to improve competition between online services and data-driven innovations.
Data Portability between Online Services
The working paper looks at users’ requirements for the right to data portability and shows how switching between online services could be facilitated.
Nudge Units and Data-driven Nudging
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…
Piggybacking data
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.
“A huge experiment”
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…