Privacy critics: UI components to safeguard users' privacy

  • Authors:
  • Mark S. Ackerman;Lorrie Cranor

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA;AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ

  • Venue:
  • CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Creating usable systems to protect online privacy is an inherently difficult problem. Privacy critics are semi-autonomous agents that help people protect their online privacy by offering suggestions and warnings. Two sample critics are presented.