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Untying the Gordian Knot: Legally Compliant Sound Data Collection and Processing for TTS Systems in China

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Within a remarkably short period of time, China has enacted a third data protection law, the “Personal Information Protection Law,” which came into force on November 1, 2021. With the previously enacted “Cybersecurity Law” and “Data Security Law,” Chinese data protection law offers numerous regulations that also need to be complied with by European addressees given their wide scope of application with, in part, extraterritorial claims. If data is to be collected and partially processed in China as part of an international and interdisciplinary research project, all applicable European and Chinese regulations have to be observed. This contribution compares the regulations and draws conclusions about similarities and differences in legislation across countries in order to ensure data collection and processing in conformity with data protection. It can be seen that the General Data Protection Regulation and Personal Information Protection Law are similar in many respects, particularly with regard to the regulatory system and content of the regulations. Nonetheless, while the primary focus of the General Data Protection Regulation is on the protection of individuals and fundamental rights, the Personal Information Protection Law also formulates governmental goals that, in direct comparison, may seem surprising and, in some circumstances, give cause for concern in terms of legal policy.

We show that data collection and processing in an international research project is possible and feasible and provides suggestions for best practices.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Linguistic credibility differs from other forms of credibility such as journalistic credibility or media credibility by focusing on linguistic cues that facilitate accepting the communication partner (sociolinguistic) and accepting the truth value of the message (pragma-semantic).

  2. 2.

    In some disciplines, such as sociolinguistics, that depend on collecting natural language data in casual settings, unimpeded by the presence of the researcher, extensive paperwork prior to the data collection might result in suboptimal data (observer’s paradox). However, distributing informed consent forms before collecting data has become the standard in sociolinguistics [37].

  3. 3.

    Future forms of processing are especially challenging to determine when the collected (language) data will be contributed to a database accessible to the wider research community, such as CLARIN [16].

  4. 4.

    In the EU, a competing interest might be the construction of research data databases according to the FAIR principles, for example, in the CLARIN project.

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This study was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project-ID 416228727 – SFB 1410.

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    Stefanie Meyer & Dagmar Gesmann-Nuissl

  2. Professorship for English Language and Linguistics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

    Sven Albrecht & Josef Schmied

  3. Professorship for Media Informatics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

    Maximilian Eibl & Stefan Taubert

  4. Professorship for Psychology of Learning with Digital Media, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

    Günter Daniel Rey & Rewa Tamboli

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Meyer, S. et al. (2022). Untying the Gordian Knot: Legally Compliant Sound Data Collection and Processing for TTS Systems in China. In: Schiffner, S., Ziegler, S., Quesada Rodriguez, A. (eds) Privacy Symposium 2022. DPLICIT 2022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09901-4_6

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