An excerpt from a talk by Dr. Mary Gray “When Social Media Companies, Research Ethics, and Human Rights Collide” at Clemson University. Fundamentally technology companies used to be in the business of selling software or hardware to individual/ group users. However, over the years, that has changed. Now the biggest…

A Keynote by Susan McGregor, Assistant Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the 14th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2018. Why Usability? The international standard ISO 9241–11 provides guidance on usability and defines it as “The extent to which a product can be used by specified users…

Making chatbots more attractive and user-friendly — A chatbot is a computer program that is made to mimic a human in order to conduct a conversation either via audio or textual mediums. Chatbots known as bots or interactive agents can use natural language processing systems or be structured to scan for keywords in user input and respond…

Why care ? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — A privacy policy is a form where one consents’ to the collection, transfer, storage, disclosure, and use of their personal information such as name, phone number by a service in this case twitter. This gives a service the right to collect, store and control that information once one concurs with…

In attempt to hold myself more accountable and also help introduce you to some of the interesting books that I have had opportunity to read. I will keep this running list of books that you might want to check out once in a while. …

Phil Knight is the founder of Nike. The multinational footwear, apparel and equipment company whose whoosh sign you probably have seen an athlete don on television or even happen to have a garb marked with it. It has been in the news lately for its groundbreaking garment: the Nike Pro…

After the Paris Accord Now Comes Your Part. — On December 31st,2016 will be the 8th UN Secretary-General of the United Nations Mr. Ban Ki-moon’s last day at the helm of the United Nations. He will be vacating the top UN seat for Antonio Guterres who was appointed as the next Secretary General effective 1st January 2017 by the…

It’s been a couple of months since my last post. Wheww what a time it has been with some major milestones transpiring. I also got the time to reflect on where I would like to focus my energies in the next few years and had moments to rekindle some of…

The Debrief: Twelfth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security 2016 . As a co-author of “An Inconvenient Trust: User Attitudes toward Security and Usability Tradeoffs for Key-Directory Encryption Systems” a research paper to find out users view on encryption, I had the opportunity to attend the Symposium on Usable Privacy…