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Malin Eiband, Hanna Schneider, Fabius Steinberger
Out of Unmündigkeit: The GDPR for User Enlightenment
In CHI-GDPR Workshop at CHI'18, Montreal, Canada, April 21 - 26, 2018. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Data processing and machine learning have advanced technology in the Information Age, yet users' digital literacy remains in its infancy. We argue that this discrepancy is due to a lack of transparency in current systems, which keeps users in a state of Unmündigkeit (immaturity) and thus unable to make informed choices when using personalized products and services. We see EU's General Data Protection Regulation as the legal framework and a unique opportunity to foster such literacy and user enlightenment. In the light of our call, we present possible research avenues for the HCI community to leverage this opportunity.