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In this chapter, we discuss the privacy implications of mobile sensing and modern psycho-social sciences. We aim to raise awareness of the multifaceted nature of privacy, describing the legal, technical and applied aspects in some detail. Not only since the European GDPR, these aspects lead to a broad spectrum of challenges of which data processors cannot be absolved by a simple consent form from their users. Instead appropriate technical and organizational measures should be put in place through a proper privacy engineering process. Throughout the chapter, we illustrate the importance of privacy protection through a set of examples and also technical approaches to address these challenges. We conclude this chapter with an outlook on privacy in mobile sensing, digital phenotyping and, psychoinformatics.

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Notes

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    http://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/pdf/text_en.pdf.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases.

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    https://research.neustar.biz/2014/09/15/riding-with-the-stars-passenger-privacy-in-the-nyc-taxicab-dataset/.

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html.

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    https://web.archive.org/web/20140828024924/http://blog.uber.com/ridesofglory.

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    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/netflix-privacy-lawsuit.

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  1. Institute of Distributed Systems Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany

    Frank Kargl, Rens W. van der Heijden, Benjamin Erb & Christoph Bösch

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  1. Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

    Harald Baumeister

  2. Department of Molecular Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

    Christian Montag

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Kargl, F., van der Heijden, R.W., Erb, B., Bösch, C. (2019). Privacy in Mobile Sensing. In: Baumeister, H., Montag, C. (eds) Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing. Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31620-4_1

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