Data privacy and jatos 3.5.3

rward

The 3.5.3 update note says "jatos.js - Handle result data sending and study session sending in a non-blocking background worker that ensures that all data is sent before the study finishes".

Does this have any implications re data privacy if a participant aborts the study? I suppose that would include simply closing the window, and using the jatos.abort* calls. That is, is there data saved following either of these participant actions?

thank you!

elisa

Hi,

Kristian will correct me if I'm wrong but there's no change to the abort behaviour. jatos.abortStudy will delete any data stored up until that point.

Note that if a participant closes the tab, the data will remain by default. You would have to include a callback on the beforeunload event in order to abort a study without explicitly clicking on the abort button.

Best

Elisa

kri

Elisa is correct. Once you call one of the jatos.abort* functions, the study is put into state ABORTED in the database and all previously stored result data and files are deleted. All later attempts to store data will fail too due to the study being in the wrong state.

Best,

Kristian