Testing for transparency: designing privacy-informing systems for young people

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Luwemba, Ephraim (2025) Testing for transparency: designing privacy-informing systems for young people. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

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Abstract

Privacy notices are presented to the users of online services, usually upon entering a website and they are the predominant tool for informing them about information privacy practices. Often, a users reading and signing of the privacy notice is the condition to their entry to a website. The content of the notice is used to protect the services interests and demonstrate that users have been made aware of its privacy practices. In the case of sites and other online services aimed toward children, websites cannot acquire their consent. However, it is still vital and often legally required that the website present the information in a way that they will understand.

This PhD seeks to assess the presentation of child facing privacy notices and other privacy informing mechanisms (practice presentations) online. It does so by first providing a review of the landscape of child-facing practice presentations in the present day. Then, through a series of engagements with young people and the designers of service interfaces, it imagines what the future of practice presentations might look like, and how this project can help to design that future.

Item Type: Thesis (University of Nottingham only) (PhD)
Supervisors: Dowthwaite, Liz
Perez Vallejos, Elvira
Keywords: Privacy, Notice and Consent, Transparency, Children, Privacy Literacy, Human Computer Interaction, Accessibility, Personal Data, Privacy Design
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA 75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Faculties/Schools: UK Campuses > Faculty of Science > School of Computer Science
Item ID: 82370
Depositing User: Luwemba, Ephraim
Date Deposited: 12 Dec 2025 04:40
Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025 04:40
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/82370

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