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X-WR-CALNAME:Safety by Design Will Not Save Us: Why Financial Technologies 
 Always Side with Economic Abuse Perpetrators
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SUMMARY:Safety by Design Will Not Save Us: Why Financial Technologies Alway
 s Side with Economic Abuse Perpetrators
DESCRIPTION:BritCHI 2026 · alt.britchi: Designing Otherwise: Power\, Value
 s and Consequences\nBarros Pena\, Wiper\n“Safety by design” has become
  a familiar mantra within design\, policy and information security circles
 . We take issue with this approach to design\, an ahistorical and solution
 ist interpretation of technology-facilitated abuse that asks practitioners
  to anticipate how their systems might be misused\, and to adjust their de
 sign to foreclose those possibilities. We argue that the features enabling
  technology-facilitated abuse are deeply embedded in the foundational prin
 ciples under which digital technologies are conceived\, and that addressin
 g such harms instead requires systemic change. Taking fintech-facilitated 
 economic abuse as our case study\, we demonstrate that “safety by design
 ” is powerless against the harmful potential of digital systems\, and th
 at promoting it is not merely ineffective but actively counterproductive.
LOCATION:Brunel University London\, Kingston Lane\, Uxbridge UB8 3PH
URL:https://www.britchi.uk/programme/schedule/alt-britchi-designing-otherwi
 se-power-values-and-consequences/
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