Design My Privacy: 8 Principles for Better Privacy Design - Softcover

Schep, Tijmen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9063694377 ISBN 13: 9789063694371

Publisher: BIS Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

How can we protect our privacy in this digital era? This question is increasingly relevant to designers due to the emergence of ‘the internet of things’. Technology is now part of our daily items. Watches, clothing, cars, and houses are becoming ‘smart’ and connected to the ‘cloud’.

This book provides guidance on how to design to address concerns regarding privacy. Design My Privacy is written to encourage designers to think about, as well as design for privacy issues. The technology behind smart products and systems are so complex, that it is difficult to understand the consequences for the consumer’s everyday life. Designers must think about transparency and accessibility in the design of privacy-sensitive products and services.

This book offers guidance in the form of 8 design principles for products and services.

About this title

About the Author

Tijmen holds an MA in both interactive media design from the HKU (graduating with an interactive urban screen) and new media theory from the University of Utrecht (graduating with distinction on a thesis that critically examined ubiquitous computing ideology). This duality of perspective allows for a nuanced view of the field of design and technology.

Tijmen is a founding member of the NetNiet.org foundation and SETUP, Utrecht's event-focussed medialab. He is also an editor at This Happened. Tijmen has tought on pervasive and locative design at the HvA and the WDKA schools, and regularly lectures and hosts workshops.

From the Back Cover

Design my Privacy addresses an issue typical for our time. Whether by email, WhatsApp, Facebook or Instagram - today we communicate all day long. And then there are the countless apps available via Apple App Store or Google Play Store, designed to make our everyday Jives better and more efficient all the time. But with every little thing we do using modern technology, we transmit data to commercial companies and public authorities. And with the advent of the Internet of Things, this data flow grows bigger by the day.

Privacy has therefore become an essential issue to address. Government agencies can endlessly debate the best legislation to regulate today's technologica! innovations, but are generally left bewildered in their wake. And what about us? We the consumers, who eagerly adopt all the latest gadgets, smartphones and apps, but barely stop to think about how privacy-related matters impact our own Jives? This needs to change. So it's about time that the data specialists and data designers start to understand each other.

Design my Privacy is a wake-up call directed at designers and engineers, and in fact the entire public. Why has it become normal for us to lead our Jives without seriously thinking about privacy? This book offers a clear overview of today's privacy issues, and calls on designers and creators of tomorrow's media technology to put privacy squarely on the agenda. Privacy isn't just a theme of our time, but is a ticking time bomb that urgently demands new solutions. The time is now, in short, to prioritise privacy as a pivotal concern for design.

From the Inside Flap

Design my Privacy addresses an issue typical for our time. Whether by email, WhatsApp, Facebook or Instagram - today we communicate all day long. And then there are the countless apps available via Apple App Store or Google Play Store, designed to make our everyday Jives better and more efficient all the time. But with every little thing we do using modern technology, we transmit data to commercial companies and public authorities. And with the advent of the Internet of Things, this data flow grows bigger by the day.

Privacy has therefore become an essential issue to address. Government agencies can endlessly debate the best legislation to regulate today's technologica! innovations, but are generally left bewildered in their wake. And what about us? We the consumers, who eagerly adopt all the latest gadgets, smartphones and apps, but barely stop to think about how privacy-related matters impact our own Jives? This needs to change. So it's about time that the data specialists and data designers start to understand each other.

Design my Privacy is a wake-up call directed at designers and engineers, and in fact the entire public. Why has it become normal for us to lead our Jives without seriously thinking about privacy? This book offers a clear overview of today's privacy issues, and calls on designers and creators of tomorrow's media technology to put privacy squarely on the agenda. Privacy isn't just a theme of our time, but is a ticking time bomb that urgently demands new solutions. The time is now, in short, to prioritise privacy as a pivotal concern for design.

Edition details

• Publisher: BIS Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9063694377
• ISBN 13: 9789063694371
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160