Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
30 results found in Privacy.
- Pseudonymization (Pseudonymisation, De-identification)
- A privacy technique in which personally identifying fields are replaced with artificial identifiers — typically hashes, tokens, or randomly assigned IDs — so that the data can no longer be attributed …
- Reverse Privacy Paradox
- The reverse privacy paradox is a pattern, described by Zhang and colleagues in research on LLM-based conversational agents, in which users appear to disregard privacy concerns in the moment of use whi…
- Revocable Consent (Withdrawable Consent)
- A consent pattern in which the user can withdraw their previously granted permission at any time, typically through a persistent, discoverable UI control that immediately halts data processing and tri…
- Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten, GDPR Article 17)
- A user right under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Article 17) to have their personal data deleted by a data controller when certain conditions are met (e.g., data no longer needed, consent…
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- An authorisation model in which system permissions are attached to roles (e.g., user, administrator, clinician, caregiver) and users are granted one or more roles rather than permissions directly. Wid…
- Shoulder Surfing
- A form of visual eavesdropping where an attacker observes a person entering sensitive information such as passwords, PINs, or personal data by looking over their shoulder or from a nearby vantage poin…
- Subtle Interaction (Discreet interaction)
- A design approach in which interactions with a device or digital system are intentionally minimized in visibility, amplitude, or audibility to reduce social disruption, preserve user privacy, and supp…
- Surveillance
- The systematic, focused, and often routine observation of people, their activities, or their data for purposes of influence, management, entitlement, or control. In accessibility and HCI research, sur…
- Verifiable Credential (VC)
- A cryptographically signed statement about a person, organisation, or object that a relying party can verify without contacting the issuer, following the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model. Verifia…
- eIDAS (electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services, eIDAS 2.0)
- A European Union regulation governing electronic identification and trust services across the single market. The revised eIDAS 2.0 regulation, adopted in 2024, requires each member state to provide a …