Compliance and safety are not the same thing.

A service can meet every regulatory requirement and still cause harm. Compliance sets a floor. Safety asks whether the people using this service (especially those at risk) will be protected when things go wrong.

The question isn't "does this pass the audit?" It's "who could be hurt by this, and how?"

#ServiceDesign #EthicsInDesign #SafetyByDesign

Some people have been preaching #SafetyByDesign principles. I would like to point out a huge problem with one of them.

Namely, the principle that profiles should be hidden by default.

This feature exists on Reddit right now. You know who uses it most? Dishonest people, who use the feature to conceal their history of dishonesty.

This allows them to do the same thing as the snake oil salesmen of the Wild West, going from town to town and running the same dishonest scheme over and over again.

They are five young women who refused to accept that safety is a privilege.

CindyUp began as a school project about drink spiking.

But the deeper story is about young people turning fear into design, silence into public language, and “be careful” into “why is this still acceptable?”

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/designing-safety-how-five-students?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#CindyUp #YouthInnovation #DrinkSpikingAwareness #GenderSafety #YouthAgency #SocialInnovation #WomenInSTEM #EntrepreneurshipEducation #SafetyByDesign