CLA Hale Lecture Series

Thursday, May 12th4-5:30 pmEastman Hall01-2000The CLA Hale Lecture SeriespresentsKatie ShiltonUniversity of MarylandCollege of Information Studies"I'm very concerned regarding the privacy of my users:" Influences on Privacy as a Professional Practice in Mobile Application DevelopmentPrivacy is a critical challenge for mobile application development. Mobile applications are easy to build and distribute, and can collect diverse personal data. US policy approaches to data protection in the mobile ecosystem rely on privacy by design: approaches that encourage developers to proactively implement best-practice privacy features to protect sensitive data. But we don_t know what factors motivate developers to implement privacy features when faced with disincentives such as longer development timelines, markets for personal data, and tensions between data protection and data-enabled services. This project begins to identify these factors by investigating how mobile developers talk about and deal with privacy challenges. Interviews with developers and analysis of posts on developer forums reveal that developers are actively grappling with privacy issues. This talk will describe how developers define and legitimate privacy, and describe how knowledge of how to approach privacy problems is disseminated. Understanding the development of privacy as a professional practice can help us shape better guidelines for privacy by design, and broach challenges to the widespread adoption of privacy by design principles.FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLICInterpreters provided upon request subject to availability.Please make your request TODAY by going to Access.rit.edu.


Contact
Cassandra Shellman
May-57
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When and Where
May 12, 2016
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Room/Location: Eastman Hall, 01-2000
Who

Open to the Public

CostFREE