Developers

Privacy, security, and consent (Talk)

Talk at the University of Waterloo Cybersecurity Privacy Institute 6th Annual Conference. The talk covers issues around how develoeprs are learning about what privacy entails and …

Kami Vaniea

• Oct 10, 2024 • 1 min read

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Developer-centered privacy

Developers are users too and they are impacted by many of the same usability issues that plague users. In this project we look at how developers engage with privacy and think about …

Embedding Privacy Into Design Through Software Developers: Challenges and Solutions

Recruiting Participants with Programming Skills: A Comparison of Four Crowdsourcing Platforms and a CS Student Mailing List

Reliably recruiting participants with programming skills is an ongoing challenge for empirical studies involving software development technologies, often leading to the use of …

Lessons Learned From Recruiting Participants With Programming Skills for Empirical Privacy and Security Studies

Understanding Privacy-Related Advice on Stack Overflow

We look at the types of privacy-related advice developers give each other on StackOverflow and how that advice maps to Hoepman’s privacy design strategies. We qualitatively …

Deciding on Personalized Ads: Nudging Developers About User Privacy

Choice framing impacts app developers’ decisions about the settings of mobile advertisements which in turn impacts their users’ privacy. We anticipate that framing and nudging have …

Security Notifications in Static Analysis Tools: Developers' Attitudes, Comprehension, and Ability to Act on Them

Privacy Champions in Software Teams: Understanding Their Motivations, Strategies, and Challenges

Software development teams are responsible for making and implementing software design decisions that directly impact end-user privacy, a challenging task to do well. Privacy …

Code-Level Dark Patterns: Exploring Ad~Networks' Misleading Code Samples with Negative Consequences for Users

"Developers are Responsible": What Ad Networks Tell Developers About Privacy

Avertising networks enable developers to create revenue, but using them potentially impacts user privacy and requires developers to make legal decisions. To understand what privacy …

Understanding Privacy-Related Questions on Stack Overflow

We analyse Stack Overflow to understand challenges and confusions developers face while dealing with privacy-related topics. Identified topics include privacy policies, privacy …

"I Don't Know Too Much About It": On the Security Mindsets of Computer Science Students

A Survey on Developer-Centred Security

Software developers are key players in the security ecosystem as they produce code that runs on millions of devices. Yet we continue to see insecure code being developed and …