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Hat tip to Helena Haapio for sending these on: Two different websites chronicling ways to protect people’s data privacy online. There is Prvacypatterns.org and PrivacyPatterns.EU. Both sites lay…
As the EU’s large new data privacy regulation rolls out next year, there is some work to ease the burdens of complying with it. For example, the Norwegian…
Last week, I spoke at Facebook’s Privacy@Scale one-day conference, on new directions of privacy design in the era of big data and ubiquitous tech. Here are my drawings…
Alessandro Carrelli is a PhD researcher at Loughborough Design School, where he is investigating how to bring better user experience and higher quality consent for privacy transactions online. Why…
Yesterday, I attended the Stanford Cyber Initiative’s event with California Attorney General Kamala Harris. It was about the AG’s office release of the 2015 Data Breach report. Much…
Carnegie Mellon’s CUPS group, who works on making usable privacy projects for normal people, has just launched a new project. They have published a collection of banks’ privacy…
A loose group of people have built a website to help users of the main providers of web applications navigate Terms of Service (which I don’t read, and…
I’ve been scouring around for guidelines that will keep lawyers and companies on track when composing & displaying Privacy Notices. It’s obvious — we need a clearer…
The CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University is one of the only centers looking at how to compose & display effective privacy notices online and off. One of their…
Stealth Wear by Adam Harvey is an art-project, prototype version of protective clothing, that stops the wearer from being surveilled — or targeted for drone strikes. It has…
Frank Smyth at the Committee to Protect Journalists writes about a chat tool, Cryptocat, developed with cryptography protections to give Ease of Use & Strong Protections to those…
I am fumbling around, trying to figure out the Internet in Turkey. It has quite the reputation, having blocked YouTube on-and-off for several years, along with WordPress, Blogger,…
A 2 page comic on Drones + Privacy.
What countries in the world are best at providing your online data from governments and from companies? I’m trying to find an excellent map showing where the best…
How cookies work online, from visual.ly
A study from Aleecia McDonald and Lorrie Cranor, from Carnegie Mellon, explaining how people can easily get confused about who is tracking them online, what information is…
Where all the Trackers Know Your Name Jonathan Mayer, at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University, explains how online trackers get sent personally identifiable information…
How can you keep users aware of the privacy choices of their browsing? There’s a new crop of visual tools that let the Internet-user see who is…
A new social network has come out of Florida, with mom Natasha Dedis at its helm, to let users choose what ads are shown on their network, and…
Arvind Narayanan used the example of LiveJournal to scout out some features which could be built into social networks to allow greater control over sharing and privacy. First:…
