Privacy Requirements and Realities of Digital Public Goods

Explore a 12-minute conference talk from SOUPS 2024 examining the effectiveness of privacy standards in Digital Public Goods (DPGs). Learn how researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and OpenSSF systematically assessed privacy protections in open-source digital products designed to support UN Sustainable Development Goals. Discover key findings about limitations in the current DPG standard's privacy evaluation approach through analysis of questionnaire responses and in-depth case studies of three widely-used DPGs. Gain insights into recommended improvements for strengthening privacy standards and understand the importance of communicating privacy requirements to both end users and third-party adopters of these technologies that deliver critical government services worldwide.