Following the rationale of the current EU legal framework protecting personal data, children are entitled to the same privacy and data protection rights as adults. However, the child, because of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection. In the online environment, children are less likely to make any checks or judgments before entering personal information. Therefore, this paper presents an analysis of the extent to which EU regulation can ensure children’s online privacy and data protection.
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This paper argues online privacy controls are based on a transactional model of privacy, leading to a collective myth of consensual data practices. It proposes an alternative based on the notion of privacy coordination as an alternative vision and realizing this vision as a grand challenge in Ethical UX
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Journalist en auteur Huib Modderkolk doet onderzoek naar een wereld die voor de meeste mensen verborgen blijft. Mendeltje en Ruud spreken hem over cyberspionage, privacy en digitale geopolitiek. Hoe doe je onderzoek naar iets dat geheim is? En hoeveel risico lopen we in een tijd waarin ons leven zich online afspeelt? En spelen wij als Nederland echt in de Champions League van de cyberspionage? Huib neemt ons mee undercover!
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Dit rapport beschrijft de resultaten van een onderzoek naar online veiligheid en mediawijsheid onder 1432 jongeren uit het voortgezet en het middelbaar beroepsonderwijs in Leeuwarden. Het biedt een cijfermatig inzicht in online problemen: welke problemen komen voor en in welke mate? Met de via de tool ( Online Tool Internetveiligheid 2.0.) verkregen data zijn zowel analyses op gemeentelijk niveau als op schoolniveau gemaakt. In het verlengde hiervan kunnen preventiestrategieën op maat worden ontwikkeld. Uiteindelijk doel is het veiliger maken van het internet voor jongeren. Dit onderzoeksproject is uitgevoerd vanuit de cross-over Digital Citizenship: dit is een samenwerkingsverband tussen de onderzoeksgroep Cybersafety en het lectoraat Organisations & Social Media, beide van NHL-Stenden Hogeschool. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd in opdracht van de afdeling openbare orde en veiligheid (OOV) van de gemeente Leeuwarden.
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Human rights groups are increasingly calling for the protection of their right to privacy in relation to the bulk surveillance and interception of their personal communications. Some are advocating through strategic litigation. This advocacy tool is often chosen when there is weak political or public support for an issue. Nonetheless, as a strategy it remains a question if a lawsuit is strategic in the context of establishing accountability for indiscriminate bulk data interception. The chapter concludes that from a legal perspective the effect of the decision to litigate on the basis of the claim that a collective right to group privacy was violated has not (yet) resulted in significant change. Yet the case study, the British case of human rights groups versus the intelligence agencies, does seem to suggest that they have been able to create more public awareness about mass surveillance and interception programs and its side-effects
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Smart speakers are heralded to make everyday life more convenient in households around the world. These voice-activated devices have become part of intimate domestic contexts in which users interact with platforms.This chapter presents a dualstudy investigating the privacy perceptions of smart speaker users and non-users. Data collected in in-depth interviews and focus groups with Dutch users and non-users show that they make sense of privacy risks through imagined sociotechnical affordances. Imagined affordances emerge with the interplay between user expectations, technologies, and designer intentions. Affordances like controllability, assistance, conversation, linkability, recordability, and locatability are associated with privacy considerations. Viewing this observation in the light of privacy calculus theory, we provide insights into how users’ positive experiences of the control over and assistance in the home offered by smart speakers outweighs privacy concerns. On the contrary, non-users reject the devices because of fears that recordability and locatability would breach the privacy of their homes by tapping data to platform companies. Our findings emphasize the dynamic nature of privacy calculus considerations and how these interact with imagined affordances; establishing a contrast between rational and emotional responses relating to smart speaker use.Emotions play a pivotal role in adoption considerations whereby respondents balance fears of unknown malicious actors against trust in platform companies.This study paves the way for further research that examines how surveillance in the home is becoming increasingly normalized by smart technologies.
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The flexible deployment of drones in the public domain, is in this article assessed from a legal philosophical perspective. On the basis of theories of Dworkin and Moore the distinction between individual rights and collective security policy goals is discussed. Mobile cameras in the public domain reflect how innovative technological tools challenge public authorities in new ways to balance between privacy and security. Furthermore, the different dimensions of privacy and the distinction between the three types of the value of privacy are reviewed. On the basis of the case study of the Dutch Drones Act, the article concludes that the flexible deployment of mobile cameras in the public domain is not legitimate from a normative perspective. The legal safeguards in the Netherlands are insufficient to protect the value of privacy. Therefore, further restrictions such as prior judicial review should be considered.
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With population aging and the expected shortage of formal and informal caregivers, emerging technologies for assistive living are on the rise. Focusing on the perspective of the prospective users of these technologies, this study investigates the perceived drivers and barriers that influence AAL adoption. An online survey among 1296 Dutch older adults was conducted. Although loss of privacy was identified as major barrier towards AAL adoption in previous research, the current study provides statistical evidence that these concerns are secondary to the expected benefits of safe and independent living. These findings suggests that older adults consider aging safely in their trusted home environment as a valid trade-off for some loss of privacy. Despite these results, we urge developers to be mindful of privacy aspects when developing AAL applications, as privacy concerns still had a significant negative influence on the attitude towards using AAL.
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Design and development practitioners such as those in game development often have difficulty comprehending and adhering to the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), especially when designing in a private sensitive way. Inadequate understanding of how to apply the GDPR in the game development process can lead to one of two consequences: 1. inadvertently violating the GDPR with sizeable fines as potential penalties; or 2. avoiding the use of user data entirely. In this paper, we present our work on designing and evaluating the “GDPR Pitstop tool”, a gamified questionnaire developed to empower game developers and designers to increase legal awareness of GDPR laws in a relatable and accessible manner. The GDPR Pitstop tool was developed with a user-centered approach and in close contact with stakeholders, including practitioners from game development, legal experts and communication and design experts. Three design choices worked for this target group: 1. Careful crafting of the language of the questions; 2. a flexible structure; and 3. a playful design. By combining these three elements into the GDPR Pitstop tool, GDPR awareness within the gaming industry can be improved upon and game developers and designers can be empowered to use user data in a GDPR compliant manner. Additionally, this approach can be scaled to confront other tricky issues faced by design professionals such as privacy by design.
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In een tijd waar corona hoogtij vierde en er meerdere lockdowns achter elkaar volgden, werd de eerste online ontmoetingsplek van het Leger des Heils (hierna: LdH) gestart. In maart 2021 werd de plek opgezet door Tineke Kleinhuis en kreeg de naam Dichtbij, omdat ze Dichtbij willen zijn voor bezoekers die het nodig hadden. Een ontmoetingsplek van het LdH waar bezoekers welkom zijn om op meerdere dagen in de week, live of achteraf meekijkend, deel te nemen aan diverse activiteiten. De activiteiten zijn onderverdeeld in drie categorieën: ‘Dichtbij God’, ‘Dichtbij elkaar’ en ‘Dichtbij doen’. De inhoud van de activiteiten worden bepaald door de bezoekers en mede vorm gegeven door vrijwilligers. De werkwijze heeft als doel om bezoekers online samen te brengen en is gericht op inspiratie, ontspanning en (geestelijke) groei. Volgens de organisatoren van Dichtbij is het online contact waardevol en kan het een brug slaan naar fysieke ontmoetingen. Als dit (eerste) online contact moeizaam verloopt is er ondersteuning vanuit Dichtbij door vrijwilligers. De tien beschreven bouwstenen in drie fasen die in deze werkwijze zijn beschreven kunnen anderen helpen om een online ontmoetingsplek op te zetten.
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