Hi, my employer is sponsoring an academic research on parenting and flexible working. A lot of sensitive questions are asked and the university researcher has circulated these questions on Google Forms to all employees. I am really anti-Google when it comes to privacy (got rid of every Google link years ago and currently use GOS, etc.) so I raised this concern with the HR team. They were sympathetic with my view and have encouraged me to send my view to the university. However, I don’t want to go down the rant, and want to provide constructive feedback. So, first thought I would to consult with privacy focused members of this list. Here are my questions:
a) are there independent research papers out there that demonstrate (rather than speculate) that Google Forms is not fully respecting privacy and is not fully GDPR compliant?
b) are there more robust, privacy and GDPR compliant alternatives I could recommend? I’ve done quick searches on the web and alternatives like JotForm and AidaForm seem to be more privaci and GDPR focused. Anyone used these before?
Am I being too anal about this …?
There’s actually a surprising amount of poll makers that are out there, so there’s a lotta choice.
The following satisfy these requirements in no particular order:
I’ve left costs out of the equation, since if there’s no tracking (and thus no ad revenue), a form must be financed in a different way, be it through a price, non-profit institutions, restrictions on forms such as how long it can stay up, amount of questions/forms, etc.
Furthermore, I’m only going to list max. 1 per country and not stuff from cooperations that already are popular for other reasons. This is because I don’t want to foster vendor- or country-lock-in dependence. So no Nextcloud (even though it’s pretty good).
LimeSurvey 🇩🇪 - what I’ve used. Pretty satisfied with it, has an intuitive form maker. It’s pretty no-nonsense. Freemium, open-source. Can be self-hosted, on Linux.
CryptPad 🇫🇷 - also nice; can be self-hosted too. Freemium, open source (AGPL-3.0).
SurveyJS 🇪🇪 - lets you use JavaScript to build forms. Freemium and self-hostable, MIT open source.
Vue Flow Form 🇭🇷 - has a pretty modern design, can be integrated on websites or apps. Free and self-hostable, MIT open source.
Zeroform 🇦🇹 - static and dynamic, not much to say. Forms can be exported as CSV, textfile, and JSON. For Linux too, self-hostable, free and open-source (AGPL-3.0).
PHP FormBuilder 🇧🇬 - uses HTML. Free and open-source, self-hosted.
Which php formbuilder do you mean? There are dozens with this name 🤣. Any chance you might share links to those projects?
Why specify self hosted ? If it’s open-source, it necessarily can be self-hosted
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