Data Privacy and Crowdsourcing: A Comparison of Selected Problems in China, Germany and the United States [Hardcover]

This open access book describes the most important legal sources and principles of data privacy and data protection in China, Germany and the United States. The authors collected privacy statements from more than 400 crowdsourcing platforms, which allowed them to empirically evaluate their data privacy and data protection practices. The book compares the practices in the three countries and develops empirically-grounded policy recommendations.

A profound analysis on workers? privacy in new forms of work in China, Germany, and the United States. 

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang D?ubler, University of Bremen

This is a comprehensive and timely book for legal and business scholars as well as practitioners, especially with the increasingly important role of raw data in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Professor Mingfeng Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Players in the Crowdsourcing Industry.- Chapter 3. Data Protection Law in Germany, the United States, and China.- Chapter 4. Privacy Statements in China, Germany, and the U.S..- Chapter 5. Summary and Conclusion.

Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf completed his PhD at the Faculty of Economics of the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich in 2011 and subsequently received his habilitation in the field of business administration in 2019 at the University of Regensburg. Previously, he was a junior researcher at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and a research associate at the Institute of International Law at the LMU. He has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, Stanford Law School, Duke University, Georgetown University, the CESifo, and the House of Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. In 2014, he became assistant professor ol³q