A talk given for the Mozilla Summit 2010 in Whistler, Canada about how Firefox can improve privacy be giving users better control over their personal data online.
10. Security refers to the prevention of
material harm to the user.
Harms include:
• Theft
• Fraud
• Data Loss
11. Privacy refers to users’ control over what
they reveal about themselves online,
whether or not what they reveal might
lead to material harm.
12. Privacy refers to users’ control over what
they reveal about themselves online,
whether or not what they reveal might
lead to material harm.
All internet users reveal some
information about themselves to some
sites, but the user has privacy if his
discretion determines what information is
shared with whom.
29. The problem: Firefox’s privacy controls are
framed around the implementation model
rather than the user’s mental model.
30. Implementation model:
The actual way that a system works from the programmer's
perspective
User’s mental model:
The way the user perceives that the system works
Design model:
The way the designer represents the program to the user
31. Questions the current system can’t answer:
“What access does this particular site
have?”
“How can I turn off all access to this
particular site that I don’t trust?”
50. The site identity button could present a UI
for the specific privacy controls that the
website has requested or the user has set
51. Site identity button: Preferences interface:
• Changing • Consistent
• Specific control • Global and specific control
• Modified while browsing • Modified while user is explicitly
(not the main user task) configuring their options
52. Questions we’d like feedback on:
• How well do you feel this interface addresses privacy
in the browser?
• How should we group sites - by domain, subdomain,
visit, etc?
• Are there site-specific preferences that belong in this
interface aside from privacy access?
• Other ideas? Thoughts?