Data Protection, Data Security and Copyright

Data Protection, Data Security & Copyright

1. Why is it particularly challenging to preserve anonymity in visual data?

Because faces, locations, objects, or contextual details may reveal a person’s identity

Because photographs cannot be anonymized

Because visual data are always protected by copyright

Because images cannot be stored securely

2. Which of the following is an important security measure for storing visual research data?

Publishing the files online as soon as they are collected

Using trusted repositories or secure research environments with controlled access

Removing all metadata from the files

Giving all collaborators unrestricted access

3. Why can risks related to visual data increase during the analysis and interpretation phase?

Because copyright automatically expires during analysis

Because visual data may be copied, annotated, edited, combined, and transformed into new files

Because participants automatically withdraw their consent

Because repositories stop protecting the data

4. If a participant creates a copyrighted work during a research project, what should researchers determine?

Whether the participant has transferred copyright or granted permission for storage, sharing, and reuse

Whether the participant has published the work online

Whether the researcher can automatically claim ownership