Private sector access to public sector personal data: exploring data value and benefit-sharing

Inclusion And Exclusion Criteria For The Literature Review

Table 1. Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

All documents with a focus - either primary or secondary - on the use with or by the private sector of public sector personal data.

All documents with a focus - either primary or secondary - on the use by the private sector of public sector personal data which do not discuss some form of benefit, benefit-sharing, value, royalties, models, intellectual property and/or costs.

Exclusion criteria

All documents where the use of public sector personal data with or by the private sector is either not included in the study or is incidental to the study.

All documents with a focus - either primary or secondary - on the use with or by the private sector of public sector personal data which discuss some form of benefit, benefit-sharing, value, royalties, models, intellectual property and/or costs.

Search strategy and inclusion criteria

We conducted a rapid systematic literature search of Scopus, JSTOR, Google, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Academia Edu using the following key word chain, tailored and adapted as appropriate - and after discussion with the Digital Directorate^[1] - for each database:

({public sector} OR government) AND ({personal data} OR {personal information} OR {private information} OR {personal details}) AND ({private sector} OR (private AND industry) OR {private compan*} OR commercial OR profit OR {profit share} OR financial*) AND ({data sharing} OR {data linkage} OR (sharing AND data) OR {information sharing} OR (data AND exchange)) AND (costs OR benefit* OR value OR benefit-sharing OR {benefit-sharing} OR value OR {intellectual property} OR royalties OR licen* OR fees OR patents OR model OR governance)

The key word chain was reviewed by the Commissioning team from the Digital Directorate.

Our initial search of the above databases resulted in a total of 7,715 items returned. We subsequently reviewed the titles, key words, abstracts and, where required, the full texts of the returned documents. After exclusion of duplicates and after further citation tracing, as well as taking on board additional suggestions from the Commissioning team, 55 sources met the inclusion criteria. The outputs of the selection process are outlined in Appendix I - Comprehensive table with all relevant literature surveyed.^[2]

The studies contained in the table were surveyed according to the following categories:

• URL/DOI
• Title
• Journal/other source name including whether peer reviewed
• Date
• Brief description & key message
• Main thematic tag(s) (see Appendix I)
• public benefit/societal benefit/ benefit-sharing/public good
• intellectual property/patents/license fees/royalties
• reference to models, real world case study/ies discussed