Are you an Android app developer? Have you ever filled out Google Play Console's data safety form? We would like to interview you about your experiences with understanding data collected by your app, and completing the data safety form.

Our Research

We are a group of researchers from the Secure Software Engineering lab at Paderborn University, working on understanding and automating GDPR compliance for Android apps. We have developed AutoPRICE, a tool that analyzes the data collected by an Android app. With its analysis results, AutoPRICE also completes a part of Google Play Store's data safety section for the developers. More details about our research can be found here. With this interview, we want to better understand app developers' perceptions of collected data.

Information about the interviews

•  Your data will be anonymized, we may use short quotes from your interview at the most.
•  We estimate that the entire interview will take approximately 45 minutes of your valuable time.
•  We can conduct the interview on Zoom or any other platform you prefer, no camera required.
•  The interview will be conducted between 20th Jan 2025, and 1st February 2025.

The interview will use a semi-structured approach, we have a bunch of questions to help us navigate through the conversation. You will get the opportunity to use our tool and then give your impressions on it. The interview process was approved by the Ethics committee of Paderborn University.

Data Processing

We will collect the following data: tool-specific answers through a questionnaire, and name and email address for communication. We would like to record the interview if you consent to it. The recording will help us create transcriptions to analyze the data systematically after the interview. Here is how we will handle your data and transcripts:

• The recording of your interview will be destroyed after we create the transcripts a few days after the interview.
• Any other personal data will not be collected as part of the study.
• All collected data is considered strictly confidential and will be anonymized as soon as possible in the research process.
• Since participant names will not be recorded, codes such as P01, P02, etc. will be used to report the results.
• Results of the study may be published, but no identifying information will be included in the publication.
• The data is collected and stored only by Paderborn University researchers.
• Participants will sign a suitable consent form before the interview is conducted.

The data handling process was approved by the Data protection office of Paderborn University.

How to Participate

Please fill out this short survey to register as a participant: https://umfragen.uni-paderborn.de/index.php/978625?lang=en

Contact

Please contact Mugdha Khedkar (mugdha.khedkar@upb.de) in case of any suggestions, questions, or feedback.