PrivacyON: Bridging the Gap between Society and the Privacy Ecosystem

网上收集的关于公民的数据数量巨大，而且还在不断增加。这些数据不仅危及我们的隐私，而且还为操纵和歧视提供了温床。尽管《通用数据保护条例》在监管方面取得了成功，但它并没有明确解决这一关键问题。因此，这项建议的核心是赋予公民权力，使他们能够最好地保护自己的隐私。到目前为止，来自整个隐私生态系统的成员，如隐私研究人员，隐私组织和隐私倡导者，已经花费了巨大的努力来实现这一目标，但成功有限：只有很少的公民使用隐私增强技术。因此，PrivacyON的目标是为弥合社会和隐私生态系统之间的现有差距做出贡献。我们的方法超越了最先进的技术，主要集中在（1）预测公民使用或接受这些技术的意图和（2）评估其可用性。在PrivacyON中，我们将努力解决用户在安装隐私增强工具之前遇到的障碍。为此，我们将开发新的方法来帮助用户了解自己，选择要安装的工具，并使其选择的结果透明化。在制定方法的同时，还将设计相应的用户界面。 我们将把它们整合到一个原型中，并对其进行全面的评估。因此，该项目的成果将加深我们对这一主题的理解，并提供重塑当前技术水平的解决方案。因此，PrivacyON不仅将基于我们的经验教训和衍生设计原则有益于隐私生态系统，而且最终造福于公民。

A tremendous and still growing amount of data is collected online about citizens. These data not only put our privacy at stake, but also build a breeding ground for manipulations and discrimination. Despite its regulatory success, the General Data Protection Regulation does not definitely solve this critical issue. The core of this proposal is therefore to empower citizens to best protect their privacy. Until now, members from across the whole privacy ecosystem, such as privacy researchers, privacy organisations, and privacy advocates, have spent tremendous effort to reach this goal with a limited success: Only few citizens use privacy-enhancing technologies. Therefore, PrivacyON targets to contribute in bridging the existing gap between society and the privacy ecosystem. Our approach goes beyond the state of the art, which mainly focus on (1) predicting citizens’ intentions of use or acceptance of these technologies and (2) evaluating their usability. In PrivacyON, we will work towards addressing obstacles that users encounter -- before -- installing privacy-enhancing tools. To this end, we will develop new methods to assist users in informing themselves, selecting the tool to be installed, and making the consequences of their selection transparent. The methods to be developed will be accompanied by the design of the corresponding user interfaces. We will integrate them into a prototype and thoroughly evaluate it. As a result, the outcomes of this project will deepen our understanding of this topic and provide solutions to reshape the current state-of-the-art. PrivacyON will hence not only benefit to the privacy ecosystem based on our lessons learnt and derived designed principles, but also ultimately benefit citizens.