privacy – Legal Communication Design

Terms And Conditions Are The Biggest Lie Of Our Industry, an article from TechCrunch

November 6, 2015November 6, 2015 by Margaret

Natasha Lomas & Romain Dillet wrote a small diatribe against the culture of Terms and Conditions legalese and fine print that currently pervades online business-to-consumer contracts. The main indictments: They are written to be unreadable They have not been written for the digital environment, they’ve just been taken from the offline standard & pasted onto … Read moreTerms And Conditions Are The Biggest Lie Of Our Industry, an article from TechCrunch

Data Privacy ‘Nutrition Labels’ for Web Users Slow to Catch On

February 12, 2015 by Margaret

In eWeek, Robert Lemos wrote an article in September 2014, on Data Privacy 'Nutrition Labels' for Web Users Slow to Catch On. The article profiles how difficult privacy notice efforts have it when trying to attract users or sustain momentum. Short-form data privacy notification initiatives for Website visitors have garnered more support in recent months, … Read moreData Privacy ‘Nutrition Labels’ for Web Users Slow to Catch On

A Nutrition Label for Privacy

February 12, 2015 by Margaret

A Nutrition Label for Privacy is an academic study by Patrick Kelley, Joanna Bresee, Lorrie Cranor and Robert W. Reeder, from CMU & Microsoft. It profiles a potential way to display legal information to consumers: with a ‘nutrition label’ interface. See more about the Nutrition Label project here. The abstract: We used an iterative design … Read moreA Nutrition Label for Privacy

CUPS’ Nutrition Label Privacy Policy

February 12, 2015 by Margaret

CMU’s CUPS lab has been prototyping Nutrition Labels for privacy. Here is one version: And another: And some of the team’s poster presentation of the project: