Equitable Privacy
Digital technologies are becoming pervasive in society, from online shopping and social interactions through to finance, banking, transportation. With a future vision of smart cities, driven by a real-time, data-driven, digital economy, privacy is paramount. It is critical to engendering trust in the digital fabric on which society relies and is enshrined as a fundamental human right in the Universal Declation of Human Rights and regulations such as GDPR. Significant efforts have been made -- end-to-end encryption, anonymous communication, privacy nutrition labels in iOS and Android -- to provide users with more agency in understanding, controlling and assuring the way their data and information is processed and shared.
Privacy is a fundamental human right enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and regulations such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For this right to be meaningful and equitable in digital interactions, people need the ability to easily control the ways they share personal information, understand with whom they are sharing it and assure that sharing is limited to the intended purpose. However, this ability to control, understand and assure is not equitably experienced across society.
Our vision is to make privacy needs of these vulnerable populations first class considerations in the design of software applications and services in order to enable equitable privacy experiences.