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

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

  • Chen, Mo; Grossklags, Jens (2023)

    E-government HCI in China: How Does the Government Communicate a New Regulation System to the Public?

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of the Asian HCI Symposium 2023: Asian CHI '23, P. 7-14
    DOI: 10.1145/3604571.3604573
    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
  • 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
  • Chen, Mo; Engelmann, Severin; Grossklags, Jens (2022)

    Ordinary People as Moral Heroes and Foes: Digital Role Model Narratives Propagate Social Norms in China’s Social Credit System

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of the 5th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, P. 181-191
    DOI: 10.1145/3514094.3534180
    Project: CSCS
  • 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. 1-23
    DOI: 10.3390/socsci11060229
    Project: CSCS
  • Krause, Theresa; Chen Mo; Wassermann, Lena; Fischer, Doris; Grossklags, Jens (2022)

    China’s Corporate Credit Reporting System: A Comparison with the United States and Germany

    Journal article
    Regulation & Governance, Volume: 17, Nr. 3, P. 755-771
    DOI: 10.1111/rego.12491
    Project: CSCS
  • 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
  • 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
  • Luzsa, Robert; Mayr, Susanne; Syrmoudis, Emmanuel; Grossklags, Jens; Kübler-Wachendorff, Sophie; Kranz, Johann (2022)

    Online Service Switching Intentions and Attitudes towards Data Portability – The Role of Technology-related Attitudes and Privacy.

    Conference paper
    ACM Digital Library, Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2022, P. 1-13
    DOI: 10.1145/3543758.3543762
    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
  • 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 (2022)

    Ordinary People as Moral Heroes and Foes

    Conference paper
    Conitzer, Tasioulas et al., Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM, P. 181-191
    DOI: 10.1145/3514094.3534180
    Project: CSCS
  • Engelmann, Severin; Chen, Mo; Dang, Lorenz; Grossklags, Jens (2021)

    Blacklists and Redlists in the Chinese Social Credit System: Diversity, Flexibility, and Comprehensiveness

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of 4th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, P. 78-88
    DOI: 10.1145/3461702.3462535
    Project: CSCS
  • Chen, Mo; Bogner, Kristina; Becheva, Joana; Grossklags, Jens (2021)

    The Transparency of the Chinese Social Credit System from the Perspective of German Organizations

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Systems
    Project: CSCS
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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; 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