Some ideas for making Privacy Policies More Simple and User-Friendly

Allen Brandt has an article, On Making Privacy Policies More Simple and User-Friendly, in the IAPP blog on Privacy Perspectives. Here is a sample of this very interesting piece from December 10, 2013. David Vladeck, while he was heading up the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, frequently railed against the current generation of consumer-facing privacy … Read moreSome ideas for making Privacy Policies More Simple and User-Friendly

PrivacyFix: Online Privacy Dashboard for social networks

PrivacyFix is a browser add-on that gives users a single dashboard to see their privacy issues on different social and professional networks, and supplies them action items to help them better control their privacy. AVG PrivacyFix™ is your online privacy dashboard. It’s a family of apps that put the control of your online data where … Read morePrivacyFix: Online Privacy Dashboard for social networks

Know Privacy

From the Berkeley Know Privacy project, a set of icons to summarize privacy details: To analyze the privacy policies, we created a set of coding tags, or facets. Policies were evaluated for Types of Data Collected, General Data Collection Practices, and Data Sharing Practices. Each policy received an evaluative code of YES, NO, or UNCLEAR … Read moreKnow Privacy

Privicons project

The Background of the Privicons Project gives a wonderfully resourced summary of their privacy design project. The Project’s Development Recently there have been numerous approaches for simplifying privacy policies by the use of icons. Similar to the Creative Commons project for managing content licenses, some scholars and technologists have suggested privacy policies could be enhanced … Read morePrivicons project

Designing Consumer-Friendly Disclosures for financial decision-making

The Federal Reserve Bulletin published a piece in 2013, summing up new ways to design better consumer understanding & decision-making tools. The article is by Jeanne M. Hogarth and Ellen A. Merry of the Board’s Division of Consumer & Community Affairs. Read the entire article here. The Federal Reserve Board has studied ways to improve … Read moreDesigning Consumer-Friendly Disclosures for financial decision-making