Category "Privacy" (1/4)
From discussing the societal impact of privacy (and lack thereof) to design strategies and tools for privacy-by-design. Strongly biased towards a human-rights approach, and commonly from a European (incl. GDPR) perspective. While I may discuss legal aspects as well, I am not a lawyer (#IANAL).
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Hacking a traffic jam into Google Maps
Google Maps Hacks by Berlin artist Simon Weckert is performance art at its best: not only for the artifact it creates (in the most ephemeral way, in form of a live data stream on Google Maps), but for the awareness it creates. 99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate…
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Three voices to be heard on Data Protection Day 2020
January 28 is Data Protection Day, and here are three voices I strongly would like to see heard.
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Bookmark: "10 Reasons Why Online Advertising is Broken"
In “10 Reasons Why Online Advertising is Broken”, Karolina Iwańska summarizes the toxicity of behavioural advertising not in one, but ten, points (and stresses that this list is not exhaustive). Starting out with the illusion of consent and intrusive profiling, she frames the…
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Reply to a Tweet by Aral Balkan
For Wordpress sites, another data-minimalist stats tool (no personal data, no cookies) is Statify by Pluginkollektiv (also the makers of the privacy-friendly Akismet alternative Antispam Bee)
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NYT axed behavioural ads in EU - a case of privacy UX paying off?
Cutting back on privacy-invading ad tech, the NYT managed to increase their EU ad revenue. A significant finding - and proof for privacy-centred UX thinking to pay off?
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Video of my talk at WUD Hamburg (in German)
The video recording of my talk on privacy as UX from Nov 2018 (“Datenschutz als User Experience”) is now available online.
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Bookmark: "Design Ethics and the Limits of the Ethical Designer"
This essay is an important contribution to the discussion of what exactly is “ethical” design and how it affects the design profession.
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70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Adopted 70 years ago today, Art. 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights grants protection of privacy - today enforced by GDPR and similar laws (Photo: Eleanor Roosevelt holding an UDHR poster in 1949; public domain).
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I got "sketchnoted"!
Big thank you to Ania Groß for this souvenir from Hamburg.
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Links und Quellen zu meinem Talk beim World Usability Day Hamburg 2018
[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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User-centred transparency design for privacy – Part II: Content design
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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Bookmark: "Designing accessible web with privacy - when web browsing reveals information"
Lukasz Olejnik presents how implementing accessibility in browsers may compromise the privacy of users of assistive technology.
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Bookmark: "The Digital Human - Jigsaw"
This brilliant Podcast episode makes the rather abstract formula that “privacy is not about individuals’ decisions” tangible through real-life examples.
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How did the GDPR come to be? And what do a film maker and two NGOs think about it?
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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Event picks for Privacy Week Berlin 2018
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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The costs and benefits of tracking scripts - business vs. user
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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Upcoming talk at Webkongress Erlangen, 11-13 Sep 2018
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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User-centred transparency design for privacy - Part I: The layered approach
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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Bookmark: "Report: Deceived by Design"
A detailed report, documenting how Google, Facebook and Microsoft use UI dark patterns to deceive and manipulate users towards accepting low privacy defaults; by the Norwegian Consumer Council.
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Bookmark: "Modern myth: Nothing to hide? Collected responses to a dangerous fallacy"
Anyone who is concerned with surveillance will hear this statement over and over again. Though dangerous and false, it is very persistent. And we are fed up with it. Ten points against the notion that you have “nothing to hide”.
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Self-hosting maps: taking control over UX and users' privacy
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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Reposting a Tweet by Frederike Kaltheuner
“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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Can we PLEASE talk about privacy, not GDPR, now?
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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Reposting a Tweet by DataEthics
“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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The Indieweb privacy challenge (Webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR)
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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