Summary: Privacy Critics: UI Components to Safeguard Users' Privacy
Mark S. Ackerman
Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697 USA
ackerman@ics.uci.edu
http://www.ics.uci.edu/CORPS/ackerman.html
Lorrie Cranor
AT&T Labs-Research
Shannon Laboratory
Florham Park, NJ 07932
lorrie@research.att.com
http://www.research.att.com/~lorrie
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.
KEYWORDS: privacy, World Wide Web, critics, agent

Source: Ackerman, Mark S. - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & School of Information, University of Michigan
Cranor, Lorrie Faith - School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences