Title: Empowering Digital Users Through Design for Privacy
Abstract: The research presented in this paper discusses the challenges and limitations of privacy by design as an effective tool for protecting users’ privacy. The EU data protection legislation requires all products, services, or systems that process personal data to be designed following a “privacy by design”. However, we contend that privacy by design does not have solid foundations to sustain privacy outside of its legal definitions, and it may only work as a legal compliance tool. Provided that the legal approach is not effective in protecting and enhancing users’ and citizens’ privacy, it is necessary to build a designerly understanding of privacy. The paper suggests a definition of privacy for design based on a universally acceptable ethical framework to create a common understanding of privacy for design and designers. Based on the notion of privacy for design, the paper supports creating a new design discipline to enhance users’ and citizens’ privacy: design for privacy.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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