Protection of Personal Data (POPD) is essential for ensuring adherence to ethical principles,
and to the framework provided by the GDPR and by the European Commission’s Horizon
program.

While more details about the ethical guidelines set in relation to the involvement of users in the
project are included in deliverable D1.3 “Ethical requirements for human participation in
research”, and further details about the way data are treated, stored and managed in the
project can be found in deliverable D1.4 “Initial data management plan”, this deliverable
includes a description of the main aspects considered and measures adopted in the Möbius
project with respect to the protection of personal data along the phases of data retrieval,
processing, storing and deletion.

Different measures are discussed in relation to different sources of data considered in the
project, including data scraping of publicly available interaction data from online platforms,
surveys and interviews of voluntary participants run within the project.