"“I don’t think you have to completely trade off one for another,” Jen King, director of consumer privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, told Recode. “And I think that people who are still making that argument are kind of in a mindset of 10-plus years ago.”
Rather, she says, it’s a design issue.
“There is a lot of work that’s been done in this area, both in the academic field, followed by corporate leaders in this space like Apple, to really try to understand human limitations and how we design products to minimize or anticipate those limitations so that people don’t have to work as hard,” King said. Instituting these best practices requires investments in people who do user experience research, which considers “how people think, [and] what their priorities and incentives are” in order to develop products and features that will ensure their security."
- Date Published:02/28/2020
- Original Publication:Vox