Background Reading & Research
We also have assembled background readings, research, and work about how people understand legal notices & what has been tried as means of communicating better. Please send along any further recommended readings!
Reimagining How Lawyers Communicate Contract Terms & Insurance Policies to the Public
Here's a report from the OECD on how to leverage behavioral insights for better complex ...
Another interesting academic study of new interventions to increase understanding: from New York University professors Junius ...
UX Magazine has a piece by Ilana Westerman, Making Online Privacy Make Sense, that discusses ...
via Smarter Information, Smarter Consumers - HBR.
As policy makers turn their attention to the private ...
In eWeek, Robert Lemos wrote an article in September 2014, on Data Privacy 'Nutrition Labels' ...
A Nutrition Label for Privacy is an academic study by Patrick Kelley, Joanna Bresee, Lorrie ...
Here is a law article from last year, by lawyer Adam L. Rosman, about how ...
Here is one testing model to see if your designs are successful:
1. Define one or ...
Here's a legal journal article,
Blind Consent? A Social Psychological Investigation of Non-Readership of Click-Through Agreements,
on ...
The Center for Media Design at Ball State University published a short paper on iTunes ...
Visual Law: What Lawyers Need to Learn from Information Designers
by Helena Haapio and Stefania Passera
on ...
via Consumer Comprehension of Financial Privacy Notices - s70907-21-levy.pdf.
This report describes the results of ...
Initiatives
Who are the groups that are working on the challenge of presenting complex legal information in usable, comprehensible ways to lay people? We are gathering together profiles and links of these other initiatives.
How can legal professionals communicate different levels & scenarios of risk, so that ...
PrivacyFix is a browser add-on that gives users a single dashboard to see their privacy ...
Know Privacy is a project from UC Berkeley about users' expectations of privacy online, and ...
The online security company AVG announced it would be trying out a more mobile-friendly & ...
CMU's CUPS lab has been prototyping Nutrition Labels for privacy.
Here is one version:
And another:
And some ...
The Bank Privacy site collects together financial institutions' privacy notices and allows the user to ...
ThinkData is a Data Protection and Transparency Awareness Service that presents legal information in a ...
TOSBack | The Terms-Of-Service Tracker is a joint project from the EFF & ToS;DR (Terms ...
A team from the CUPS made Privacy Illustrated, a project having kids illustrate privacy for ...
The Usable Privacy Policy Project is experimenting with how to make privacy more comprehensible, visual ...
From BlurryEdge Strategies' blog:
FTC Recommends Best Practices for Mobile Privacy
On February 1, 2013, the FTC ...
via Background : Privicons.org.
Recently there have been numerous approaches for simplifying privacy policies ...
Disconnect DB.
We developed the privacy icons in partnership with a Mozilla-led working group, the ...
