Design My Privacy: 8 Principles for Better Privacy Design [Paperback]

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 Privacyis 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.

8 principles for better privacy design in the connected society

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 starl£‰