Privacy Interfaces for Information Management

To facilitate the sharing of information using modern communication networks, users must be able to decide on a privacy policy--what information to conceal, what to reveal, and to whom. We describe the evolution of privacy interfaces--the user interfaces for specifying privacy policies--in COLLABCLIO, a system for sharing web browsing histories. Our experience has shown us that privacy policies ought to be treated as first-class objects: policy objects should have an intensional representation, and privacy interfaces should support direct manipulation of these objects. We also show how these conclusions apply to a variety of domains such as file systems, email, and telephony. Keywords Privacy, user interfaces, direct manipulation, WWW, information retrieval, intensional/extensional set representations.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 1999
• Where: CACM
• Authors: Tessa A. Lau, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
• Keywords: CACM 1999, Modern Communication Networks, Privacy, Privacy Policies