The guidelines outline key principles for using citizen data responsibly. They were developed with and includes real-world examples from several European cities. The cities of Bordeaux, Barcelona, Debrecen, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Florence, Ghent, Helsinki, Manchester, Rijeka and Zaragoza collaborated on the guidelines. This data is discussed in the context of being traced, collected, measured, stored, used, […]
privacy by design
Facebook is launching Threads, a new camera-first messaging app from Instagram for keeping up with your close friends in a dedicated space. Facebook claims it is built with privacy in mind, so that you can feel comfortable using the app to communicate with your close friends. Read more: Privacy Matters: Threads | Facebook Newsroom
If data is the new oil, then analytics are the new refinery without which any modern business is unable to make informed decisions. However, data analytics and privacy are seldom assumed to go together. If media reports and regulatory actions are any indication, services and platforms that utilize or enable analytics have consistently been under […]
The National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (‘ANSPDCP’) announced, on 4 July 2019, that it had fined UniCredit Bank S.A. €130,000 for breach of Article 25(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (‘GDPR’) relating to the principles of data protection by design and by default. The ANSPDCP found that failure to […]
Données & Design is a platform, created by French data protection authority CNIL, seeking to create spaces for collaboration and discussion for designers to build together user journeys respectful of privacy. The platform aims at efficiently integrating those considerations in the daily work of designers in order to help them argue their choices and collaborate […]
It is a well-documented fact that many users are willing to share information on social media and other platforms, also when it compromises their privacy. People do not understand the risks nor the consequences of sharing information on the Internet. Design of privacy in human-computer interfaces therefore suffers from an inherent problem: We cannot base privacy-design […]
Who/what/where is a simple mnemonic for user interface design. Every time that a user takes an action, there are three things that they need to know: who, what and where: who they are — that is, the identity that they’re using; what action they are taking; where the relevant data is visible, especially to which […]
With the advent of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018, the web has turned into a vast exhibition of consent pop-ups, notifications, toolbars, and modals. While the intent of most cookie-related prompts is the same — to get a user’s consent to keep collecting and evaluating their behavior the same ol’ […]
In an experiment that involved 43 programmers hired via the Freelancer.com platform, University of Bonn academics have discovered that developers tend to take the easy way out and write code that stores user passwords in an unsafe manner. For their study, the German academics asked a group of Java programmers to write a user registration […]
MIT and Harvard University researchers have developed a platform, called Riverbed, that ensures that web services adhere to users’ preferences on how their data are stored and shared in the cloud. Source: Putting data privacy in the hands of users | MIT News