Keep on Lockin' in the Free World

Harbach, Marian; Luca, Alexander De; Malkin, Nathan; Egelman, Serge

doi:10.1145/2858036.2858273

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“…We posit that cultural differences may considerably impact those attitudes, yet, the impact of these cultural differences has so far been under-studied in the realm of computer security. Most of the related studies indeed address either general cross-cultural considerations (e.g., [2,3,12,32]), or very specific behaviors (e.g., smartphone locking [22]), thus motivating the questions: Does culture affect (general) computer-security behavior? If so, to which extent and how?…”

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confidence: 99%

Self-Confidence Trumps Knowledge

Sawaya

Sharif

Christin

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Computer security tools usually provide universal solutions without taking user characteristics (origin, income level, ...) into account. In this paper, we test the validity of using such universal security defenses, with a particular focus on culture. We apply the previously proposed Security Behavior Intentions Scale (SeBIS) to 3,500 participants from seven countries. We first translate the scale into seven languages while preserving its reliability and structure validity. We then build a regression model to study which factors affect participants' security behavior. We find that participants from different countries exhibit different behavior. For instance, participants from Asian countries, and especially Japan, tend to exhibit less secure behavior. Surprisingly to us, we also find that actual knowledge influences user behavior much less than user self-confidence in their computer security knowledge. Stated differently, what people think they know affects their security behavior more than what they do know.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self-Confidence Trumps Knowledge

Sawaya

Sharif

Christin

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Second, we chose users from High Socioeconomic groups in Germany (HSG) as a baseline because (1) it is a typical Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic society, (2) this user group has been extensively studied in previous work [23,[33][34][35]. We focused our work on women because previous work has shown that women have more privacy concerns in the Arab world, so we recruited more female participants [12,1].…”

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What About My Privacy, Habibi?

Saleh

Khamis

Sturm

2019

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019

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This paper contributes an in-depth understanding of privacy concerns and perceptions of Arab users. We report on the first comparison of privacy perceptions among 1) users from high socioeconomic groups in Arab countries (HSA), 2) users from medium to low socioeconomic groups in Arab countries (LSA), and 3) as a baseline, users from high socioeconomic groups in Germany (HSG). Our work is motivated by the fact that most research in privacy focused on Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. This excludes a segment of the population whose cultural norms and socioeconomic status influence privacy perception and needs. We report on multiple novel findings and unexpected similarities and differences across the user groups. For example, shoulder surfing is more common across LSA and HSG, and defamation is a major threat in LSA. We discuss the implications of our findings on the design of privacy protection measures for investigated groups.

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“…Cultural values play a key role in shaping individuals' social perceptions [29,107], attitude towards security and privacy [35,57], and even the use of technology [22,78]. In our analysis, rather than looking at culture as an all-encompassing singular entity, we examined several facets of cultural values.…”

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“…Although we emphasize the need to use human-centered design to examine security and privacy preferences in diverse HCI4D contexts, we recognize that doing so in every context for every user group in distinct geographic locations is unscalable. An alternative is to conduct large-scale cross-gender and cross-country studies (e.g., [18] and [78] ) to design high-level security and privacy models, similar to Hofstede' cross-cultural models [80], for different HCI4D contexts. 5.1.2 Case for Replication.…”

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“…Studies in HCI4D Contexts. Traditional ways of understanding users' attitudes and behaviors involves conducting users studies with quantitative surveys (e.g., [78]), observations done in person (e.g., [133]), data collected by instrumenting users' devices (e.g., [146]), and qualitative interviews (e.g., [148]). However, conducting surveys and qualitative interviews with low-income, low-literate people is challenging, particularly in rural regions, due to literacy constraints, cultural differences, socioeconomic barriers, and response bias [59,144].…”

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Examining Security and Privacy Research in Developing Regions

Vashistha

Anderson

Mare

2018

Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies

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Prior research suggests that security and privacy needs of users in developing regions are different than those in developed regions. To better understand the underlying differentiating factors, we conducted a systematic review of Human-Computer Interaction for Development and Security & Privacy publications in 15 proceedings, such as CHI, SOUPS, ICTD, and DEV, from the past ten years. Through an in-depth analysis of 114 publications that discuss security and privacy needs of people in developing regions, we identified five key factors-culture, knowledge gaps, unintended technology use, context, and usability and cost considerations-that shape security and privacy preferences of people in developing regions. We discuss how these factors influence their security and privacy considerations using case studies on phone sharing and surveillance. We then present a set of design recommendations and research directions for addressing security and privacy needs of people in resource-constrained settings. CCS CONCEPTS• Security and privacy → Human and societal aspects of security and privacy;

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Keep on Lockin' in the Free World

Cited by 39 publications

References 9 publications

Self-Confidence Trumps Knowledge

Self-Confidence Trumps Knowledge

What About My Privacy, Habibi?

Examining Security and Privacy Research in Developing Regions

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