Designing Usable and Useful Privacy Choice Interfaces
Friday, October 13, 2023 11 AM
About this Event
6760 Forest Park Pkwy, St. Louis, MO 63105, USA
Lorrie Faith Cranor
FORE Systems University Professor Engineering & Public Policy, and School of Computer Science
Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security & Privacy Technologies, CyLab Usable Privacy & Security Laboratory
Co-Director, MSIT- Privacy Engineering Master’s Program
Users who wish to exercise privacy rights or make privacy choices must often rely on website or app user interfaces. However, too often, these user interfaces suffer from usability deficiencies ranging from being difficult to find, hard to understand, or time-consuming to use, to being deceptive and dangerously misleading. This talk will discuss user-centric approaches to designing and evaluating privacy interfaces that better meet user needs and reduce the overwhelming number of privacy choices. I'll present a privacy choice mechanism evaluation
framework and several examples of privacy interface design and evaluation from my research, including more usable cookie consent banners, mobile app privacy nutrition labels, IoT privacy and security labels, and a privacy options icon for the State of California.