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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 19th. Homework will not be accepted after 3:00pm on that day.

• Part 1 (50 points): This week, you read about the design of usable privacy notices. 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 a future homework assignment, you will be running a usability test of your design.



• Part 2 (50 points): Write a first draft of the methodology section for your group's research project. For the purpose of the homework assignmet, each team member should do this individually. Afterwards, your team will have a whole set of methodology drafts, which will allow you to combine the strongest aspects of each.



• Part 3 (9-unit students should not do this part. 12-unit students will receive between 0 and 45 points for this part): Write a 3--7 sentence summary and short "highlight" for the Cranor et al. financial notices paper assigned for March 19th, as well as one optional reading assigned for each of the following classes: March 3rd and March 17th. In other words, you will be summarizing and highlighting 3 readings total.