Understanding Corporate Data Sharing Decisions: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities for Sharing Corporate Data with Researchers

"More widespread access to corporate data sets would support new scholarship and allow researchers to consider questions that cannot fully be answered from publicly available data alone. The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) conducted research and interviews with experts in the academic and industry communities to determine:

● The extent to which leading companies make data available to support published research that contributes to public knowledge;

● Why and how companies share data for academic research; and

● The risks companies perceive to be associated with such sharing, as well as their strategies for mitigating those risks."