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 …