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
Category "Privacy" (1/3)
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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January 28 is Data Protection Day, and here are three voices I strongly would like to see heard.
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Hey Tony (and anyone else looking, as I get this quite a lot), here are a couple of possible options: * https://usefathom.com/ * https://goaccess.io/ * https://github.com/vesparny/fair-analytics … I’m not mentioning Matomo as they’ve ventured into tag managers, etc.
—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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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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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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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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"Datenschutz als User Experience" - @sebastiangreger auf dem WUD in Hamburg! https://buff.ly/2yUgam8 #wudhh #wud #usability #ux #privacy
—Ania Groß Whoa: probably not a verb, but I got “sketchnoted” at the World Usability Day Hamburg! Big thank you to Ania Groß for this souvenir from Hamburg.
Sketchnote of my talk at #wudhh 2018; by Ania Groß of sketchnotes-hamburg.de (republished here with the artist’s kind permission; original in full size on Twitter) -
[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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Now with a link - my piece for @privacyint in @POLITICOEurope 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. https://www.politico.eu/article/privacy-is-power-opinion-data-gdpr/
—Frederike Kaltheuner As recent scandals have illustrated so vividly, privacy is also about the autonomy, dignity, and self-determination of people – and it’s a necessary precondition for democracy.
Frederike Kaltheuner of Privacy International wrote a brilliant op-ed for Politico: “Privacy is power”
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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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It's #GDPR day tomorrow and @DataEthicsEUs @mediamocracy and @PernilleT are giving away free PDF downloads of their book Data Ethics - The New Competitive Advantage (2016). #dataethics #dataetik #privacy (also in Danish, just check out the Danish site)
—DataEthics “Data Ethics”, by the Danish ThinkDoTank with the same name, 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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All personal data stored may eventually pose a risk to somebody. Three stories of how data stored or shared can have unwanted consequences.
