Category "Privacy" (2/4)
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[In German] Sources and mentioned resources from my talk on "Privacy as UX" at the World Usability Day 2018 in Hamburg/Germany.
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This follow-up on the "layered approach" discusses the EDPB guidelines’ suggestions for shaping the transparency information itself: content, language, accessibility, intelligibility, etc.
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Brief notes from a public screening of “Democracy”, an award-winning documentary about how the new European data protection law came to be, followed by a podium discussion with the director and representatives of privacy NGOs. If you are a German-speaker, you can watch the film on the […]
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Privacy Week Berlin is taking place next week for the first time, with a range of interesting events (mostly in German, it appears). Here are my picks, if only my schedules allow.
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Jeremy Keith: "Too many businesses treat analytics and tracking scripts as victimless technologies—they only see the benefits (in data acquisation) without understanding the costs (in performance)."
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On my blog: a teaser on one topic from my #wke2018 “Privacy as UX” talk: User-centred transparency design for privacy – Part I: The layered approach German-speaking web professional? Join us at Webkongress Erlangen, 11-13 Sep! Past eventTue 11 September 2018— Thu 13 […]
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The EDPB’s official “Guidelines on Transparency” under GDPR are a valuable, yet little-known, resource for designers. In this article, I examine the 40-pager for contributions on putting individuals in control of their personal data through user-centred design - beyond compliance […]
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OpenMapTiles allows for efficient self-hosting of embeddable OSM maps without significant resource requirements and with reasonable effort for a web professional.
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"Privacy was once misconstrued as being about hiding and secrecy. Now it’s understood to be something much more pressing: power dynamics between the individual, the state and the market."
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Let’s not bury this under “achievement unlocked by May 25” but use the momentum to work on new ideas how to proceed from here. Likely everybody had to take shortcuts in recent weeks. Now, with pressure off, is the time to share what we have learned – and continue to keep working on new ideas for privacy first, compliance second.
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"Data Ethics" is an inspiring book making the case for ethical design of businesses and products; PDF now available for free
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Originally intended to showcase a privacy-centred implementation of emerging social web technologies - with the aim to present a solution not initially motivated by legal requirements, but as an example of privacy-aware interaction design - my “social backfeed” design process unveiled […]
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An experimental hacking event for active webizens concerned about privacy first and legal compliance second. The goal is to take it to the extreme: challenging 'common practices' and pushing the boundaries.
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Dear interwebz, @sebastiangreger, @l_a_w_4_2 and I started to compile a public list of services and their resources around #GDPR compliant data processing agreements https://tollwerk.github.io/data-processing-agreements/ … Pls help us grow it big! PRs & RTs highly appreciated #DPA #ADV #DSGVO
—Joschi Kuphal One of many GDPR tasks before May 25 is to sign Data Processing Agreements with third-party services you use for your website, newsletter, etc. For an easy start, we created a collaborative online list to provide an easy starting point - please use for your benefit! …and contribute back?
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Baltasar, Joschi and I discuss importance and implications of the GDPR for web designers and developers - on the Working Draft podcast, hosted by Hans Christian Reinl.
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The efficient combination of legal risk management and privacy-sensitive design ensures a good ROI for GDPR compliance efforts.
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A high-profile expert panel met in Berlin on 31 Jan to discuss the nature and risks, but above all the rewards and opportunities of the GDPR. This blog post summarizes eight key thoughts emerging from the presentations and discussions at this inspirational and positively spirited discussion of the […]
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Following the Strava heatmap debacle, I encountered this study by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab via Twitter:
Fitness tracking devices monitor heartbeats, measure steps, sleep, and tie into a larger ecosystem of goal setting, diet tracking, and other health activities […]
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Readthedocs.io, a popular platform for creating and publishing software documentation, documents their responsible approach to online ads on their service:
EthicalAds respect users while providing value to advertisers. We don’t track you, sell your data, or anything else. We simply […]
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All personal data stored may eventually pose a risk to somebody. Three stories of how data stored or shared can have unwanted consequences.
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The Irish Data Protection Commissioner published a brochure with learning materials aimed at secondary schools.
The aim of the resource is to raise awareness amongst young people of their rights to privacy, the importance of taking control of their personal information, the rights they […]
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The design takes into account privacy-conscious users with cookies disabled. When closing the notification popup, the user learns that by using an alternative URL, they can reach a version of the site without the notification
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An important report by the Ethics Advisory Group (EAG) of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS):
This report seeks to propose terms and concepts that contribute to a constructive debate about the future of ethics in a full-fledged digital society. It identifies and clarifies […]
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The “Digital Standard”, openly maintained under a CC-BY-4.0 license on Github, is an ambitious project to establish shared values in development of software-based products:
Our goals are to enable consumer organizations to test, evaluate, and report on whether new products […]