Conciseness, interest, and unexpectedness: User attitudes towards infographic and comic consent mediums

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityConciseness, interest, and unexpectedness: User attitudes towards infographic and comic consent mediumsDoan Xengie Cheng, Selzer Annika, Rossi Arianna, Botes Wilhelmina Maria, Lenzini GabrieleAbstract:Being asked to consent to data sharing is a ubiquitous experience in digital services - yet it is very rare to encounter a well designed consent experience. Considering … Continued

Data Protection and Consenting Communication Mechanisms: Current Proposals and Challenges

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityData Protection and Consenting Communication Mechanisms: Current Proposals and Challenges Arianna Rossi, Human, Soheil, Degeling, Martin, Santos, Christiana, Pandit, Harshvardhan, Morel, Botes, Wilhelmina Maria, Jesus, Vitor, Kamara, IreneAbstract:Data Protection and Consenting Communication Mechanisms (DPCCMs) have the potential of becoming one of the most fundamental means of protecting humans’ privacy and … Continued

Autonomy and the social dilemma of online manipulative behavior

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityAutonomy and the social dilemma of online manipulative behaviorMarietjie BotesAbstract:Persuasive online technologies were initially designed and used to gain insights into the online behavior of individuals to personalize advertising campaigns in an effort to influence people and convince them to buy certain products. But recently, these technologies have blurred the … Continued

Visualisation Techniques for Consent: Finding Common Ground in Comic Art with Indigenous Populations

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityVisualisation Techniques for Consent: Finding Common Ground in Comic Art with Indigenous PopulationsBotes Wilhelmina Maria, Arianna RossiAbstract:With emerging technologies such as genome research and the digitization of health records comes the need for new models of informed consent. In this climate of innovation people are often prone to explore the … Continued

Back to the Future with Icons and Images: “Low-Tech” to Communicate and Protect Privacy and Data

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityBack to the Future with Icons and Images: “Low-Tech” to Communicate and Protect Privacy and DataBotes Wilhelmina Maria, Arianna RossiAbstract:Since the myth of the tower of Babel, humankind has been concerned with the impossibility of communicating across cultures, societies, and literacy levels. Although multilingualism can solve some of these challenges, … Continued

Training Data Scientists in Legal Practice

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Report from the SnT Annual Report: Link   In 2017, it was proposed by The Economist that the world’s most valuable resource was no longer oil, but data. In fact, as early as 2006, this shift in our technological activity was hypothesised, including the value that mining and analysing data would hold for us in … Continued