KIT Building 05.20, Room 3A.11

Human-centric Privacy design and Engineering

Abstract: Privacy is ultimately about people. User studies and experiments provide insights on users’ privacy needs, concerns, and expectations, which are essential to understanding what a system’s actual privacy issues are from a user perspective. Drawing on the speaker’s research, this talk discusses how and why privacy controls are often misaligned with user needs, how public policy aimed at protecting privacy often falls short, and how a human-centric approach to privacy design and engineering can yield usable and useful privacy protections that more effectively meet users’ needs and might also benefit companies.

Prof. Dr. Florian Schaub