Based on 15 years of research, the INUSE research group at Aalto University created this “Co-design journey planner” that helps identify the most suitable research methods based on range of project variables:
The problem is not finding just any approach, but sorting out […]
Personal privacy in the networked age is limited by three dimensions of “veillance.” They shape people’s behavior and their anxieties about the future of privacy. At Harvard University’s symposium “Privacy in a Networked World,” Lee Rainie will present the latest survey […]
Commercial tracking of web users is a massive problem. Even more so, when people browse seemingly trustworthy websites (as the government’s official sites, in this case) and those leak personal information – here potentially revealing something about that user’s health or health […]
This website has extensive background and material on Ann Cavoukian’s “Privacy by Design” framework from the 1990s:
Privacy by Design is a framework that was developed by the former Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Dr. Ann Cavoukian. Privacy by Design […]
The late Ulrich Beck (✝2015-01-01), father of the concept of the “risk society”, on digital freedom:
The violation of our freedom does not hurt. We neither feel it, nor do we suffer a disease, a flood, a lack of opportunities to find a job, and so on. Freedom dies without […]
A spot-on example of scenarios not taken into account in design inadvertently turning something intended to be “joyful” into something “awful”: Eric Meyer really did not want to be reminded of his past year, but still faced Facebook pushing his terrible year's content […]