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While protecting human subjects’ confidentiality is a long-standing practice in the social sciences, new types of digital datasets present new challenges. Tensions between privacy and openness were explored in the recent International Digital Curation Conference. Limor Peer reflects on the session she chaired on participant confidentiality in a time of open research data. While community efforts on establishing best practice are well underway, questions still remain on who is responsible for data protection and whether practitioners and policy-makers could be more involved in this ‘data life cycle’.

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