Putting Privacy Notices to the Test

Explore the challenges and potential improvements of privacy notices and security warnings in this 20-minute conference talk from USENIX Enigma 2017. Delve into the importance of privacy notices, their current shortcomings in informing users, and innovative approaches to enhance their effectiveness. Examine the cognitive processes involved when encountering these notices and warnings. Learn from various user studies conducted to test the efficacy of privacy notices and security warnings, discovering both ineffective examples and successful improvements achieved through iterative design and testing. Gain valuable insights from Lorrie Faith Cranor, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, on making privacy and security information more accessible and understandable to users.