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2 days ago

Amazon Got Access to the Interior of Your Home Without You Even Noticing

Amazon acquired iRobot, the company that makes Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, for $1.7B. It can now have richer data about the interior of your home and share with whoever they see fit, even the police. You never consented to it (but it is probably buried somewhere in their privacy policy). …

Tech

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Amazon Got Access to the Interior of Your Home Without You Even Noticing
Amazon Got Access to the Interior of Your Home Without You Even Noticing

Published in UX Collective

·Updated Jul 30

I was on TikTok for 30 days: it is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy

What is behind the extraordinary growth and usage of the app — Whether you like it or not, TikTok’s numbers are impressive. It has over 1 billion monthly active users. It was downloaded 3 billion times worldwide and it is so far the most downloaded app this year. The average user opens TikTok 8 times per day. …

Privacy

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I was on TikTok for 30 days: it is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy
I was on TikTok for 30 days: it is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy

Jul 19

How Facebook Manipulates You Using Dark Patterns

In today’s newsletter, I analyze some of Facebook’s dark patterns that affect our privacy. Dark Patterns in privacy are manipulative design practices that exploit our cognitive biases to make us share more data than we would do if we had more information about what is going on Watch the 6…

Privacy

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How Facebook Manipulates You Using Dark Patterns
How Facebook Manipulates You Using Dark Patterns

Jul 11

Privacy Settings Are Too Complicated. Here Are Some Ideas On How To Change Them

This week I would like to start a discussion about privacy settings: are they purposefully complicated in order to trigger cognitive biases and be an obstacle to privacy-preserving decisions? Or privacy is such a complicated topic that it would be impossible to design an easy-to-navigate menu? Or both? …

Privacy

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Privacy Settings Are Too Complicated. Here Are Some Ideas On How To Change Them
Privacy Settings Are Too Complicated. Here Are Some Ideas On How To Change Them

Jul 7

But what is privacy anyway?

In today’s newsletter, I would like to talk about what is privacy and why protecting it is essential to foster values such as freedom, autonomy and human dignity in the digital age. First, there are plenty of academic definitions of what is privacy. One of the first definitions and that…

Privacy

5 min read

But what is privacy anyway?
But what is privacy anyway?

Jun 29

Privacy-enhancing design vs deceptive design cookie banner — a case study

Continuing last week’s conversation about User Vulnerabilities in the Data Cycle and How to Mitigate Them, today I would like to talk more about Privacy-Enhancing Design , specifically by analyzing a very good and a very bad example of cookie banners on the web (and why one is a Privacy-Enhancing…

Privacy

10 min read

Privacy-enhancing design vs deceptive design cookie banner — a case study
Privacy-enhancing design vs deceptive design cookie banner — a case study

Published in UX Collective

·Updated Jun 23

User vulnerabilities in the data cycle

and how UX designers can help to mitigate them — Continuing last week’s conversation about Privacy-Enhancing Design as a way to improve user privacy and reduce user vulnerabilities, this week I would like to take a step back and discuss the different types of user vulnerabilities that exist throughout the data cycle and have a negative effect on user privacy…

Privacy

6 min read

User vulnerabilities in the data cycle
User vulnerabilities in the data cycle

Published in UX Collective

·Updated Jun 16

Understanding privacy-enhancing design

And how it can be a game changer for data protection. — Continuing last post's discussion about Data Protection Design as a new discipline, this week I would like to raise the topic of Privacy-Enhancing Design and its technical role as a framework of heuristics and practical UX design guidelines aiming at translating data protection law principles and rules to UX practices. A) WHAT IS PRIVACY-ENHANCING DESIGN? WHAT IS IT FOR?

Privacy

9 min read

Understanding privacy-enhancing design
Understanding privacy-enhancing design

Published in UX Collective

·Updated Jun 13

The data protection design & privacy-enhancing design manifesto

and how data protection law & UX design must work together — In today’s post, I will propose and explain a new discipline: Data Protection Design, in which the worlds of Data Protection Law and UX Design are bridged and Privacy-Enhancing Design is the gold UX Design standard. As I explain below, this is a much-needed next step for data protection legislation…

Privacy

7 min read

The data protection design & privacy-enhancing design manifesto
The data protection design & privacy-enhancing design manifesto

Published in UX Collective

·Updated Jun 9

Deceptive patterns in data protection (and what UX designers can do about them)

A dive into the infamous world of deceptive design. — Deceptive patterns, according to Harry Brignull — the first designer who coined the term — are “tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn’t mean to, like buying or signing up for something.” Some common examples are websites that make it almost impossible to…

Privacy

5 min read

Deceptive patterns in data protection (and what UX designers can do about them)
Deceptive patterns in data protection (and what UX designers can do about them)
Luiza Jarovsky

Luiza Jarovsky

Lawyer, Ph.D. Candidate and Mother of 3. http://about.me/luizajarovsky

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