Privacy for Children and Teenagers on Social Networks from a Usability Perspective

Silva, Cristiana S.; Barbosa, Geraldo A.; Silva, Ismael S.; Silva, Tatiane Sousa e; Mourão, Fernando; Coutinho, Flávio

doi:10.1145/3091478.3091479

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“…Moreover, although the protection of all social-network users' security and privacy is important, this applies even more users who are more vulnerable to potential security-and privacy hazards. While this research examined adult Facebook users, future work should consider studying specific vulnerable user groups, building on existing work such as Silva, Barbosa, Silva, Silva, Mourão and Coutinho's (2017) study of teenagers' privacy on Facebook.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Security and privacy in online social networking: Risk perceptions and precautionary behaviour

Schaik

Jansen

Onibokun³

et al. 2018

Computers in Human Behavior

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A quantitative behavioural online study examined a set of hazards that correspond with security-and privacy settings of the major global online social network (Facebook). These settings concern access to a user's account and access to the user's shared information (both security) as well as regulation of the user's information-sharing and user's regulation of others' information-sharing in relation to the user (both privacy). We measured 201 non-student UK users' perceptions of risk and other risk dimensions, and precautionary behaviour. First, perceptions of risk and dread were highest and precautionary behaviour was most common for hazards related to users' regulation of information-sharing. Other hazards were perceived as less risky and less precaution was taken against these, even though they can lead to breaches of users' security or privacy. Second, consistent with existing theory, significant predictors of perceived risk were attitude towards sharing information on Facebook, dread, voluntariness, catastrophic potential and Internet experience; and significant predictors of precautionary behaviour were perceived risk, control, voluntariness and Internet experience. Methodological implications emphasise the need for non-aggregated analysis and practical implications emphasise interventions to promote safe online social-network use.

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Section: Limitations and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Security and privacy in online social networking: Risk perceptions and precautionary behaviour

Schaik

Jansen

Onibokun³

et al. 2018

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…An active group within the HCI community, numerous Child-Computer Interaction (ChiCI) studies have involved children both intrinsically and instrumentally in technology design to support their learning and engagement with society [11,21,47,51]. As digital spaces become increasingly fundamental to children's interpretation of spatiality [34], other studies have problematised children's vulnerability in these spaces by looking at ways technology can help to protect against risks like cyber bullying [43], privacy infringement [59] and the mixing of child and 'adult' behaviours online [50,52].…”

Section: Designing Socio-technical Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, this raises significant ethical issues entangled with children and adults participating jointly in digital spaces. As already identified, children are at risk of cyber bullying, privacy infringement, abuse or exploitation in such spaces [43,48,52,59], presenting concrete challenges and critical questions that opening up these spaces would raise. We suggest that future work might wish to explore what it would mean to enable children's participation in digital platforms on a level playing field with adults, whilst simultaneously 'taking care' of them and being mindful of the risks posed by opening these spaces for their participation.…”

Section: Hci and 'Intergenerational' Dialoguementioning

confidence: 99%

Streets for People

Peacock

Anderson

Crivellaro

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In this paper, we present a socio-technical process designed to engage children in an ongoing urban design project-Streets for People-in Newcastle, UK. We translated urban design proposals developed by residents and the local authority to enable children to contribute ideas to the project. Our process comprised three stages: situated explorations and evidence gathering through digitally supported neighbourhood walks; issue mapping and peer-to-peer discussions using an online engagement platform; and faceto-face dialogue between children, residents, and the local authority through a 'Town Hall' event. We report insights gained through our engagement and show how our activities facilitated issue advocacy and the development of children's capacities, but also surfaced tensions around the agency of children in political processes. We reflect on the challenges of working in this space, and discuss wider implications for technology design and ethical questions that 'scaling up' such work might pose.

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“…However, developmental research has shown that children can develop a "theory of mind" by the age of 4 [19], which enables children to recognise the differences between concepts in their minds and those in others, and hence to grasp complicated concepts like "secrecy" [19] or "deception" [17]. Contrary to common expectations, children value their privacy because this enables them to enjoy their experience online [41,68], such as socialising with their friends and families or experimenting with new games.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

`I make up a silly name'

Zhao

Wang

Dally

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Children under 11 are often regarded as too young to comprehend the implications of online privacy. Perhaps as a result, little research has focused on younger kids' risk recognition and coping. Such knowledge is, however, critical for designing efficient safeguarding mechanisms for this age group. Through 12 focus group studies with 29 children aged 6-10 from UK schools, we examined how children described privacy risks related to their use of tablet computers and what information was used by them to identify threats. We found that children could identify and articulate certain privacy risks well, such as information oversharing or revealing real identities online; however, they had less awareness with respect to other risks, such as online tracking or game promotions. Our findings offer promising directions for supporting children's awareness of cyber risks and the ability to protect themselves online. * Also with

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Privacy for Children and Teenagers on Social Networks from a Usability Perspective

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Security and privacy in online social networking: Risk perceptions and precautionary behaviour

Security and privacy in online social networking: Risk perceptions and precautionary behaviour

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