Oct
11
By Travis Pinnick User Experience Designer | TRUSTe @xtratrav The current industry standard of providing user preferences around ad-related tracking makes use of a script-based in-ad icon as specified by the DAA which links to a preference management tool. Newer browsers are also supporting the Do Not Track (DNT) header request as an alternate method …
Sep
07
The San Francisco Privacy Engineering group held its first meetup in late August at the TRUSTe’s office in Union Square. Eleven attended keeping it perfectly sized for an intimate discussion around Travis Wellman describing “Spaciousness”, a new model, based on Content Addressing and graphs, for users to store their information in the web. The new …
Jul
10
By Travis Pinnick User Experience Designer | TRUSTe @xtratrav TRUSTe is in the process of designing a consumer app that addresses mobile privacy issues. The current app design consists of 3 sections: App Permissions (reflects the current permissions of apps on the user’s device) App Activity (allows the user to see what data calls their …
Mar
13
By Travis Pinnick User Experience Designer | TRUSTe @xtratrav Cookies are a pervasive browser tool used for the purpose of creating stateful interactions (ie. keeping track of your preferences, analyzing site usage, or to show ads tailored to your interests.) This year a new law goes into effect in the European Union requiring user consent …
Dec
02
By Travis Pinnick User Experience Designer | TRUSTe @xtratrav As a technologist how do you decide what privacy considerations are important when designing your products? After designing consumer-facing privacy-related products for several years, I have reached the conclusion that the majority of consumers have little understanding of privacy on the web. Most admit they take …
Oct
18
We’ve seen many changes over the years in the way that computers, computing power and the effects of the internet have changed the way that we do business and as a result build and scale computer systems infrastructure. Going from large specialty machines in small quantities (scale-up) to using commodity computer equipment in large numbers …
