Privacy Hunters - Privacy Games

Privacy Hunters - Privacy Games
http://privacyhunters.eu

Privacy International (PI) received funding from the Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme of the European Commission to produce a suite of games highlighting the topic of privacy rights in the European community.

The purpose of the project is to empower European citizens through increasing awareness of privacy rights across the region based in the following 3 action areas:

  1. Map European privacy laws and recent developments as well as summarize the trends in light of the right to privacy.
  2. Disseminate information and publish it on multiple online and offline platforms.
  3. Develop innovative awareness-raising campaigns to be launched at the European Data Protection Day on January 28, 2011

CivicActions was chosen to develop 2 challenge games focusing on data mining:

  • IP Sleuth - users review web access logs and IP addresses to identify what geographic locations a fictional traveler has visited.
  • Domain Invader - users review logs of domain name service queries within a specific network to identify information about a fictional university campus group.

CivicActions chose to develop the games using Drupal 7. We relied on only core features for actual game play. Drupal multi-step forms track user achievements during game play, and EntityFieldQuery stands in for Views, which did not have functioning exposed filters when we started the project. Custom Feeds module plugins are used to generate and purge log entries that are tuned for the outcome and desired difficulty of game play. A custom module named "Drippy" (the Drupal Assistant) adds an in-game character who provides hints and appears to perform some tasks for the player.

Once the core functionality was in place, CivicActions visual designer, Chuck Spidell worked with the team to identify appropriate names for the website and 2 games and provided stunning visual design to bring the games to life.

Project Start Date: 
October, 2010
Launched: 
January, 2011

About Privacy International

Privacy International (PI) is the oldest surviving privacy advocacy group in the world, and was the first organisation to campaign at an international level on privacy issues. Its antecedents stretch back to 1987, at which time the organisation’s founders started to build an international network in response to mounting concern across the world over the changing nature and magnitude of privacy violations.

In 1990, in response to a growing number of privacy threats, more than a hundred leading privacy experts and Human Rights organizations from forty countries linked arms to form a world organization for the protection of privacy. Members of the new body, including computer professionals, academics, lawyers, journalists, jurists and human rights activists, had a common interest in promoting an international understanding of the importance of privacy and data protection. Meetings of the group, which took the name Privacy International, were held throughout that year in North America, Europe, Asia and the South Pacific, and members agreed to work toward the establishment of effective privacy protection throughout the world.

The formation of Privacy International is the first successful attempt to establish a structured world focus on this crucial area of human rights.

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