Comics as a Medium for Privacy Notices

Authors: 

Bart Knijnenburg and David Cherry, Clemson University

Abstract: 

Online privacy and security notices are rather ineffective: Very few people read them, and those who do find them difficult to understand and remember. How can we create privacy and security notices that are inviting, engaging, comprehensible, and memorable, even for users with dyslexia or a lower literacy level? In this paper, we propose to investigate the use of comics for privacy and security notices. We describe the ongoing development of comic notices for the "transparency and choice" part of Google's privacy policy, as well as a research plan to test these notices against existing notices in various different settings.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {198042,
author = {Bart Knijnenburg and David Cherry},
title = {Comics as a Medium for Privacy Notices},
booktitle = {Twelfth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2016)},
year = {2016},
address = {Denver, CO},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2016/workshop-program/wfpn/presentation/knijnenburg},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}
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