PrIncipedia: A Privacy Incidents Encyclopedia

A thorough understanding of society's privacy incidents is of paramount importance for technical solutions, training/education, social research, and legal scholarship in privacy. The goal of the PrIncipedia project is to provide this understanding by developing the first comprehensive database of privacy incidents, enabling the exploration of a variety of privacy-related research questions. We provide a working definition of ``privacy incident'' and evidence that it meets end-user perceptions of privacy. We also provide semi-automated support for building the database through a learned classifier that detects news articles about privacy incidents.