Giving Firefox Users Control of Their Data
- 1. Giving Firefox Users Control of Their Data Mozilla Summit 2010
- 2. We are: Mehdi Mulani Jennifer Boriss Mozilla Intern Extraordinaire Mozilla User Experience Designer
- 3. We work on:
- 4. We work on:
- 5. We work on: (mostly)
- 6. Warning: This project has just started. We’re after feedback and discussion.
- 7. One of the Firefox team’s priorities for Firefox 4.0 is improving privacy on the web.
- 9. Security refers to the prevention of material harm to the user.
- 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.
- 13. Firefox has local privacy...
- 14. Firefox has local privacy... • Private Browsing Mode • Clear Recent History • Forget About this Site
- 15. Firefox has local privacy... • Private Browsing Mode • Clear Recent History • Forget About this Site ...but lacks network privacy
- 16. The most far-reaching way Firefox can protect user privacy is by providing intelligent defaults that protect user data
- 17. ...such as preventing advertisers from creating profiles based on user behavior without user knowledge
- 18. Also important is giving users the ability to easily fine-tune their privacy settings, giving complete control of their own data
- 19. However, just “control” isn’t enough.
- 20. Firefox already provides very fine-grained, precise control over privacy settings.
- 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?”
- 32. What do other browsers do?
- 35. ...is just like ours.
- 36. Internet Explorer presents privacy permissions in a very different way
- 39. Proposal:
- 40. Proposal: Site-specific rather than technology-specific privacy preferences
- 42. Domains displayed based on freceny score Site-specific preferences
- 43. With “All Sites” selected, global privacy options can be configured Site-specific preferences
- 45. Privacy preferences for only the site selected Site-specific preferences
- 46. Demo! Follow along at home: search for “Site Preferences” on addons.mozilla.org or go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/181744/
- 47. Better privacy preferences are great in preferences, but should some of this functionality be revealed in the main UI?
- 48. The site identity button is a good candidate: • Linked to the identity of the current site • In primary UI • Currently useless
- 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?
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