Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
56 results found in privacy.
- Digital Nudge (Technology Nudge, Behavioral Nudge)
- Design elements in digital interfaces that subtly guide users toward particular behaviors or decisions. In privacy contexts, nudges might suggest obfuscating detected sensitive content or prompt users…
- Emotional Agency
- The ability of an individual to independently manage their emotional responses and experiences, particularly when encountering sensitive or personal information. In the context of accessibility and ge…
- Face Recognition (Facial Recognition, Face Detection)
- A technology that uses computer vision and machine learning to identify or verify a person by analysing their facial features from images or video. In accessibility contexts, face recognition has sign…
- Face Swap (Face Transformation, Face Replacement)
- A technology that replaces the face of a person in a video or image with a different face while attempting to preserve the original person's facial expressions, head movements, and lip synchronization…
- Focus Mode
- A privacy technique in visual assistance technologies that spotlights a specific object of interest while obfuscating or hiding all other elements in the image or video. For example, a user might acti…
- Forced Intimacy
- Forced Intimacy is a concept coined by disability and transformative justice activist Mia Mingus that describes the experience of disabled people being expected to share very personal information with…
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- A European Union regulation (2016/679) that governs the collection, processing, and storage of personal data for individuals within the EU and EEA. GDPR requires that consent for data processing be fr…
- Homomorphic Encryption (Partially Homomorphic Encryption, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, FHE)
- Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption that allows computations to be performed on ciphertext (encrypted data) without first decrypting it, such that the result, when decrypted, matches the re…
- Impression Management (Self-Presentation)
- The conscious or unconscious process of controlling how one is perceived by others, including managing what personal information is visible or shared. For blind people using visual assistance technolo…
- Inclusive Privacy (Accessible Privacy, Privacy and Accessibility)
- An emerging field of research and practice focused on designing security and privacy mechanisms that are inclusive of people with diverse characteristics, abilities, needs, and values — particularly p…
- Informational Privacy (Information Privacy, Data Privacy)
- The ability of individuals to control information about themselves—determining what personal data is collected, who can access it, and how it is used. In assistive technology contexts, informational p…
- Informed Consent
- The process by which individuals are provided with clear, understandable information about how their data will be collected, used, and shared, enabling them to make voluntary decisions about participa…
- Mix Network (Mixnet, Mix-Net, Re-encryption Mixnet)
- A mix network (mixnet) is a cryptographic routing protocol that achieves anonymity by passing encrypted messages through a chain of servers (mix nodes), each of which reorders and re-encrypts the mess…
- Multi-Party Computation (MPC, Secure Multi-Party Computation, SMPC)
- Multi-party computation (MPC) is a subfield of cryptography that enables multiple parties to jointly compute a function over their private inputs while keeping those inputs secret from each other. No …
- Obfuscation (Content Obfuscation, Visual Obfuscation)
- AI-enabled techniques that automatically detect and remove or conceal private content in images and videos by applying filters such as blurring, masking, or blocking. In the context of visual assistan…
- Off-Device Processing (Cloud Processing, Remote Processing)
- Computing performed on external servers rather than on the user's local device, requiring data to be transmitted over the internet. In the context of visual assistance technologies, off-device process…
- On-Device Processing (Local Processing, Edge Processing)
- Computing performed directly on a user's device (phone, tablet, or wearable) rather than sending data to external servers. On-device processing is particularly valuable for privacy-sensitive accessibi…
- Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
- Any data that can be used to identify a specific individual, such as name, email address, location, biometric data, or device identifiers. For assistive technology users, PII concerns are heightened b…
- Personally Identifying Information (PII, Personal Data, Personally Identifiable Information)
- Any data that can be used to identify a specific individual, including names, addresses, photographs, financial details, and biometric data. In accessibility contexts, PII is a significant concern whe…
- Privacy Alert (Privacy Notification, Privacy Warning)
- A notification informing users about the potential presence of private or sensitive content in their captured images or video. Privacy alerts aim to prompt users to apply obfuscation or take other pro…