Transatlantic Privacy Perceptions (TAPP), Wave 3 (Autumn 2023)

TAPP is an interdisciplinary research project conducted at the Universities of Maryland (UMD) and Munich (LMU). The privacy landscape is shaped by diverse actors from academia, policy, law, technology, journalism, and civil society, making it challenging to unify perspectives across sectors, regions, and cultural contexts. The Transatlantic Privacy Perceptions (TAPP) Panel addresses this by surveying influential privacy experts across jurisdictions with differing regulations. This survey captures stakeholders´ attitudes toward digital privacy, focusing on current and future challenges in privacy policies and practices. The focus of Wave 3 of the Transatlantic Privacy Perceptions (TAPP) Panel is on the effect of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on privacy. During the survey period from 15 November 2023 to 20 December 2023 privacy experts who deal with privacy in the United States and/or Europe were interviewed in online interviews (CAWI). Respondents were selected through a deliberate selection process based on their visibility, recognizability and influence in the field. Professional interest in privacy-related topics or both a personal and a professional interest in privacy-related topics; the rise of generative AI has changed the way the respondent thinks about privacy policy; areas where generative AI has changed the way one thinks about privacy policy (inadequacy or lack of existing regulation, no transparency in source of training data, risk of social engineering/ manipulation (ex. deep fakes), need for mass data collection/aggregation (for quality AI products), use of data for a purpose different from its original intent (ex. your data used for AI training)); paid or voluntary privacy work (respondent performs privacy-related activities as part of his paid job vs. as a volunteer or activist); sector for privacy work (academia, government, journalism, law, non-profit/NGO/ Think Tank, Tech industry, non-Tech industry, volunteer/ activist); region of expertise: policy context the respondent is most familiar with when it comes to privacy issues (United States, Europe, other); region in which the respondent has more influence (in the United States or in Europe); years of experience on privacy issues. Additionally coded: Respondent ID, response ID, wave; returning respondent (Individuals who have participated in at least one wave of TAPP); response status; willingness to participate in future waves of the TAPP Panel; country of expertise.