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Homework 7

Print your homework out and submit it in person at the start of class (3:00pm) on Thursday, March 6th. Homework will not be accepted after 3:05pm on that day.

• Part 1 (50 points): Write a 3--7 sentence summary and short "highlight" for each of the readings assigned for March 4th and March 6th. Students taking the 12-unit version of this class must also submit a summary and highlight for one of the optional readings from either of those days.


• Part 2 (50 points): This week, you read about the design of usable privacy notices and about smartphone app permissions. Now, we want you to design a privacy notice for smartphone apps. You should turn in:
  1. One paragraph describing what details you believe to be most important for a smartphone app privacy notice to communicate, and why.
  2. One paragraph describing the decisions you made in designing your privacy notice.
  3. Sketches of your notice that you will use for a paper prototype. For more information on creating a paper prototype, please read this article. Note that you should have examples of all major screens or displays that a user would see. You can create sketches on paper (give us photocopies!), in Powerpoint, in rapid-prototyping software, etc.
  Note that as part of next week's homework, you will be running a usability test of your design.