Reconstructing Intimate Contexts through Data Donation: A Case Study in Menstrual Tracking Technologies

Ubiquitous wearable and mobile technologies generate vast amounts of data from sensors and self-logging applications. This data creates opportunities to better understand people’s behavior and inform research on intimate topics such as menstruation. However, in design and HCI research, reconstructing the context in which data was collected and...

You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide?: Designing a tour that enables citizens of Utrecht to critically reflect about the collection and use of their personal data and its privacy consequences within the smart city

In 2008 more than 50 percent of all people, 3.3 billion people, lived in urban areas according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund, n.d.). By 2030 this will be approximately 5 billion (Lea, 2017). On the one hand, with fast urban growth also come challenges in the way we build and manage cities. On the...

The Cultural Machine: The rendition of the and the virtual

The increasing possibilities of the ubiquitous world of the (internet of things) IoT, will not only be installed in our environment but also be attached to the human body. Generating services in which the participant has become as connective to its surrounding as the devices installed to serve them. Thereby expanding the reliance on the rapidly...

Towards Designerly Data Donation

In-The-wild research allows the HCI community to gain insights into personal behaviour and characteristics. For designers and researchers, this means having access to rich spatiotemporal insights reflecting user's characteristics, behaviours, and needs. However, designerly contexts require contextualized and meaningful data, and collecting it...

Measuring the brussels effect through access requests: Has the European General Data Protection Regulation Influenced the Data Protection Rights of Canadian Citizens?

We investigate empirically whether the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) improved compliance with data protection rights of people who are not formally protected under GDPR. By measuring compliance with the right of access for European Union (EU) and Canadian residents, we find that this is indeed the case. We...

Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment

The rapid dynamics of COVID-19 calls for quick and effective tracking of virus transmission chains and early detection of outbreaks, especially in the “phase 2” of the pandemic, when lockdown and other restriction measures are progressively withdrawn, in order to avoid or minimize contagion resurgence. For this purpose, contact-tracing apps...

Designing a User Interface for Improving the Usability of a Statistical Disclosure Control Tool

Data sets often contain personal data that are not needed for analysis. Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) is a personal data minimizing technology to reduce personal data in a data set while maintaining the utility of the data set at an acceptable level. SDC tools usage lags due to the complexity encountered by users. The aim of the research...

Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment

The rapid dynamics of COVID-19 calls for quick and effective tracking of virus transmission chains and early detection of outbreaks, especially in the “phase 2” of the pandemic, when lockdown and other restriction measures are progressively withdrawn, in order to avoid or minimize contagion resurgence. For this purpose, contact-tracing apps...

Exploring solutions to the privacy paradox in the context of e-assessment: informed consent revisited

Personal data use is increasingly permeating our everyday life. Informed consent for personal data use is a central instrument for ensuring the protection of personal data. However, current informed consent practices often fail to actually inform data subjects about the use of personal data. This article presents the results of a requirements...

Scoping Personal Data: Towards a Nuanced Interpretation of the Material Scope of EU Data Protecton Law

The concept of personal data - any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person - is a cornerstone of the European data protection framework since its very inception. The processing of personal data is a conditio sine qua non for the applicability of EU data protection law. Despite the crucial importance of the notion,...

Exclusivity through Conduct: A vision for Mercedes-Benz private ownership in 2035

This master thesis was executed for Mercedes-Benz; a subsidiary of Daimler AG. Its goal was to design a holistic interior concept for level 4 premium autonomous driving, aimed at:‘’Purpose-driven people, expressing confidence in their success, who reluctantly accept novelty framed by tradition’’, using a context based design approach. In the...

When Willeke can get rid of paperwork: A lean infrastructure for qualified information exchange based on trusted identities

As a frequent participant in eSociety, Willeke is often preoccupied with paperwork because there is no easy to use, affordable way to act as a qualified person in the digital world. Confidential interactions take place over insecure channels like e-mail and post. This situation poses risks and costs for service providers, civilians and...

Panel: Removing the barriers for personal data management

In our data-driven society, both public and private organisations are struggling with issues regarding privacy and personal data. On the one hand, consumers are required to hand over more and more personal data in return for (free) online services. On the other hand, regulations increasingly demand data minimisation and informed consent....

Towards the Adoption of EU General Data Protection Regulation: An Empirical Study of Businesses’ Perception on Privacy and Data Protection

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) is about to come in force in May 2018. It poses new queries for both policymakers and businesses. Policymakers want o know how effective the new EU GDPR will be while the businesses would like to know how the EU GDPR should be implemented. To answer that question, empirical studies on how...

On data markets as a means to privacy protection: An ethical evaluation of the treatment of personal data as a commodity

A number of technological developments such as cloud computing and big data analysis have affected the way in which personal data are processed. These developments go coupled with the currently prevalent business model of free online services that are financed through advertisements and an analysis of user data. Based on these developments, it...