Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
56 results found in privacy.
- Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET, PETs)
- A category of tools, protocols, and practices designed to protect user privacy while using digital systems, including anonymising proxies, tracker blockers, end-to-end encryption, differential privacy…
- Privacy Leak (Accidental Disclosure, Privacy Disclosure)
- The unintentional capture and sharing of sensitive personal information through visual assistance technologies. Research has found that approximately 10% of images submitted to VAT services contain pr…
- Privacy by Default (Privacy by Design, Default Privacy Settings)
- Privacy by default is a design principle requiring that systems automatically protect user privacy without requiring users to take action. In accessibility contexts, this principle is particularly imp…
- Privacy by Design (PbD)
- A framework that embeds privacy protections into the design and architecture of systems and business practices from the outset, rather than adding them as afterthoughts. In the context of visual assis…
- Privacy-Enhancing Data Filters (Privacy Filters, Data Obfuscation Filters)
- Visual or data modifications applied to training datasets that obscure the identity of contributors while preserving the information needed for machine learning tasks. In the context of sign language …
- Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
- Tools and techniques that protect user privacy by limiting the collection, use, and dissemination of personal information online. Examples include VPNs, ad blockers, privacy-focused browsers like Brav…
- Private Visual Content (PVC, Visual Privacy)
- Private visual content (PVC) refers to visual information in images or videos that the person depicted or sharing the content considers private and would not want publicly disclosed. For people who ar…
- Push-to-Talk (PTT, Push to talk)
- An interaction pattern where a user presses and holds (or taps) a dedicated button to signal the start of an input — historically used in two-way radios, now common in voice assistants and conversatio…
- Re-identification risk (De-anonymization risk, Data re-identification)
- The possibility that an individual can be identified from supposedly anonymized data by combining multiple data points or matching against external datasets. People with disabilities face heightened r…
- Surveillance technology (Surveillance tech, Monitoring technology)
- Technologies that collect, analyse, and track data about individuals' behaviours, locations, bodies, or communications. In disability contexts, surveillance technology raises justice concerns because …
- Third-Party Tracking (3rd-Party Tracking)
- Tracking performed by a domain different from the one a user is visiting, typically via embedded scripts, ad networks, analytics tags, or browser extensions that phone home to external services. Third…
- Visual Interpretation Service (VIS, Visual Assistance Service, Remote Sighted Assistance)
- A service that provides visual information to blind and low vision users through human assistants, AI-powered tools, or a combination of both. Traditional visual interpretation services like Aira conn…
- Visual Privacy (Visual Information Privacy)
- The safeguarding and management of sensitive visual information that could be shared or disclosed in everyday life, particularly through the use of assistive technologies and generative AI tools. For …
- Web Tracking (Online Tracking, Behavioural Tracking)
- The collection of information about users across websites, typically by third parties, using techniques such as cookies, fingerprinting, tracking pixels, and network requests. Web tracking raises priv…
- Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP, Zero-Knowledge Protocol)
- A zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) is a cryptographic method by which one party (the prover) can convince another party (the verifier) that a statement is true without revealing any information beyond the t…
- ePrivacy Directive (Cookie Directive, EU Cookie Law, Directive 2002/58/EC)
- A European Union directive that complements GDPR by specifically addressing privacy in electronic communications, including the use of cookies and similar tracking technologies. The directive requires…