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Apple’s privacy nutrition labels require app developers to complete a form to make data collection processes more transparent to users. Developers support more transparency, but found the labelling process challenging.

Websites often use icons to guide consumers to privacy choices. Designing effective icons can be difficult. Sites could improve results by testing icons before use.

Personalized Privacy Assistant (PPAs) will help users manage Internet of Things (IoT) device data collection. The best PPAs will learn from users and offer suggestions from unbiased sources.

Privacy laws require websites to offer consumers options such as the choice to opt out of advertising or to delete account data. On many sites, these options are poorly labelled and hard to find.

Designing privacy interfaces for devices, software, and websites that are easy for people to understand and control is difficult. Designers should shift focus from information to people and their privacy needs.

People find making privacy decisions about Internet of Things (IoT) devices difficult. Users’ decisions about privacy can be swayed by experts and friends.

Password meters, which measure the strength of computer users’ passwords, are not always accurate or helpful. This paper describes a meter that measures strength accurately and gives users detailed feedback on how to improve their password.

This paper surveys the literature on “best practices” for privacy policy design, and describes how to design useable privacy policies. Most policies are ineffective. Privacy policies should consist of multiple layers, offering information when it becomes relevant.

This article attempts to gauge user opinions about the risks and benefits of location-sharing technologies.

This paper presents research on how gender, age, and availability of educational materials affect responses to phishing.