Our prior work demonstrated that 5-10% of open datasets contain potential privacy violations, so we developed a tool to help. DataCheck can automatically scan a dataset and flag 14 types of common privacy violations before a researcher makes their data public. Available as both a Web app and R package, the tool runs locally so there is no risk of exposing participant data during the scan. It was validated on both live and simulated datasets to be >98% accurate.

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Richard Klein

Clinical Data Scientist at the Food and Drug Administration analyzing safety signals in New Drug Applications. Former academic who focused on replication and methods for robust science in Psychology. raklein22@gmail.com

Clinical Data Scientist @ FDA

Silver Spring, Maryland