Challenges of protecting confidentiality in social media data and their ethical import

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityChallenges of protecting confidentiality in social media data and their ethical importArianna Rossi, Mónica P Arenas, Emre Kocyigit, Moad HaniAbstract:This article discusses the challenges of pseudonymizing unstructured, noisy social media data for cybersecurity research purposes and presents an open-source package developed to pseudonymize personal and confidential information (i.e., personal names, … Continued

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

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

Which Properties has an Icon? A Critical Discussion on Evaluation Methods for Standardised Data Protection Iconography

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityWhich Properties has an Icon? A Critical Discussion on Evaluation Methods for Standardised Data Protection Iconography Arianna Rossi, Lenzini GabrieleAbstract:Following GDPR's Article12.7's proposal to use standardized icons to inform data subject in "an easily visible, intelligible and clearly legible manner," several icon sets have been developed. In this paper, we … 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

Proactive Legal Design for Health Data Sharing based on Smart Contracts

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityProactive Legal Design for Health Data Sharing based on Smart ContractsArianna Rossi, Helena Haapio, Abstract:The technology of smart contracts neglects the fact that people use contracts as social resources to manage their relations. Th e inflexibility that they introduce, by design, might short-circuit a number of social uses to which … Continued

Cookie Banners, What’s the Purpose? Analyzing Cookie Banner Text Through a Legal Lens

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityCookie Banners, What’s the Purpose? Analyzing Cookie Banner Text Through a Legal LensCristiana Santos , Arianna Rossi, Lorena Sanchez Chamorro, Kerstin Bongard, Ruba Abu-SalmaAbstract:A cookie banner pops up when a user visits a website for the first time, requesting consent to the use of cookies and other trackers for a … 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