PET References and Resources

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Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET)

Conferences

Privacy Patterns

  • Privacy patterns are design solutions to common privacy problems — a way to translate "privacy-by-design" into practical advice for software engineering. We believe design patterns can help document common practices and standardize terminology. We are building a living, community space where all can contribute their own patterns.

Privacy Design Strategies

  • These strategies help IT architects to support privacy by design early in the software development life cycle, during concept development and analysis. The following eight privacy design strategies are explained:  minimize,  hide,  separate,  aggregate,  inform,  control,  enforce, and demonstrate. The strategies also provide a useful classification of privacy design patterns and the underlying privacy enhancing technologies. Author Jaap-Henk Hoepman.

Dark Patterns

  • Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn’t mean to do. The purpose of this site is to spread awareness about this activity.

Privacy Notice Generator

  • Create Privacy Notices that meet the requirements of the European Union GDPR. Generates ready to use, fully customizable HTML code you can add to any website in just minutes!

k-Anonymity

  • Demonstrates that the combination of just gender, birth date, and zip code can likely uniquely identify 87% of the population in the US.

Books, Authors and Organizations

  • Ann Covoukian

  • Dan Solove

  • Jason Cronk

  • Tactical Tech

    • Tactical Tech is an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organisations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society.

  • Internet 2 history https://internet2.edu/community/internet2-timeline/

Tools and Technology

AppCensus - analysis of mobile app data collection and sharing practices

PrivacyCheq - privacy notices that you can understand. Looks like a nutrition label.

Cookiebot - Cookiebot helps make your use of cookies and online tracking compliant

Cloud Button - the cloud at a push of a button