Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Developing Curriculum, Hands-on Labs, and Research Platform to Engage Students in Privacy Compliance Education

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Abstract

In our digital era, people are overwhelmed with apps that routinely collect user data, some of which may include personal information. Despite their popularity and convenience, user-centric apps are raising growing concerns about user privacy risks. To address privacy concerns, it is essential to inform users about how these apps handle their data. At the same time, privacy and data protection regulations have been enacted in many countries to safeguard user privacy. To comply with these regulations, software developers are required to provide clear and transparent privacy policies that disclose how their apps collect, store, and share user data. To meet the ever-increasing demand in ethical software development regarding privacy compliance, this project creates effective, engaging, and openly accessible learning materials on this topic. Through its proposed activities, this project cultivates a strong privacy-aware mindset among students, equipping them with the skills and knowledge needed to assess privacy compliance in user-centric apps across various platforms. This project enhances privacy compliance education by creating new curriculum content, hands-on labs, and a research platform informed by state-of-the-art research in privacy compliance, including relevant laws and regulations, methodologies for identifying potential privacy compliance violations in software apps (e.g., static and dynamic analysis to extract data collection behaviors), and consistency between di

Key facts

NSF award ID
2448205
Awardee
Clemson University (SC)
SAM.gov UEI
H2BMNX7DSKU8
PI
Long Cheng
Primary program
01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
All programs
EXP PROG TO STIM COMP RES, CYBER SECURITY ACT PROPOSALS, SaTC: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace
Estimated total
$500,000
Funds obligated
$500,000
Transaction type
Standard Grant
Period
10/01/2025 → 09/30/2028