"When I am on Wi-Fi, I am fearless"

Klasnja, Predrag; Consolvo, Sunny; Jung, Jaeyeon; Greenstein, Benjamin; Legrand, Louis; Powledge, Pauline; Wetherall, David

doi:10.1145/1518701.1519004

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“…Dourish et al [23] when looking at how people went about managing digital privacy in the workplace found that people were employing "subtle practices to achieve privacy and security goals, such as positioning a computer screen such that visitors in an office could not see it, or stacking papers according to a secret rationale." In another related study Klasnja et al [44] focused upon how people tried to preserve their privacy when using devices in public places and observed that they were using strategies such as "tilting or dimming the screen, or finding a seat against the wall". In the studies being drawn upon here there was a range of similar phenomena, with various kinds of concerns about visibility being articulated.…”

Section: Keeping Things From Viewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The practical politics of sharing personal data

Tolmie

Crabtree

2017

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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The focus of this paper is upon how people handle the sharing of personal data as an interactional concern. A number of ethnographic studies of domestic environments are drawn upon in order to articulate a range of circumstances under which data may be shared. In particular a distinction is made between the in situ sharing of data with others around you and the sharing of data with remote parties online. A distinction is also drawn between circumstances of purposefully sharing data in some way and circumstances where the sharing of data is incidental or even unwitting. On the basis of these studies a number of the organisational features of how people seek to manage the ways in which their data is shared are teased out. The paper then reflects upon how data sharing practices have evolved to handle the increasing presence of digital systems in people's environments and how these relate to the ways in which people traditionally orient to the sharing of information. In conclusion a number of ways are pointed out in which the sharing of data remains problematic and there is a discussion of how systems may need to adapt to better support people's data sharing practices in the future.

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Section: Keeping Things From Viewmentioning

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The practical politics of sharing personal data

Tolmie

Crabtree

2017

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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“…Unlike most other smart home devices, which are typically bought for their "smarts", a consumer might well purchase a smart TV without wanting or even knowing about those features, simply because most models now on the market have them. So users may be unaware of what data is being collected and what's being sent to various servers; after all, few users are even aware of how data flows when on Wi-Fi [29].…”

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"What Can't Data Be Used For?": Privacy Expectations about Smart TVs in the U.S.

Malkin¹,

Bernd²,

Johnson³

et al. 2018

Proceedings 3rd European Workshop on Usable Security

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Smart TVs have rapidly become the most common smart appliance in typical households. In the U.S., most television sets on the market have advanced sensors not traditionally found on conventional TVs, such as a microphone for voice commands or a camera for photo or video input. These new sensors enable features that are convenient, but they may also introduce new privacy implications. We surveyed 591 U.S. Internet users about their current understanding and expectations about how smart TVs collect and use data. We found a wide range of assumptions and opinions among our respondents, and a good deal of uncertainty about what's collected and how it is used. In addition, these assumptions and opinions varied between data types and sensors. One area where we found broad agreement was that it is unacceptable for the data to be repurposed or shared. But there was little understanding of the protections-or lack thereof-afforded by current laws and regulations to constrain such sharing. We hope that our findings will enhance end-user privacy by providing useful insights for smart TV manufacturers, regulators and lawmakers, and designers of privacy-enhancing technologies.

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“…Other examples of assessing people's awareness of privacy risks are interviews conducted by Friedman et al [24], who found that people were concerned about risks to their information and especially their privacy, but did not further specify these privacy risks, a survey on security and privacy risks of eHealth wearables [25], interviews combined with a field study concerning the risks of WiFi use [26], a comprehensive study on user regrets regarding Facebook posts [27], a survey assessing perceived risks of using mobile devices to conduct online transactions [28], and surveys and interviews concerning risks of cloud storage [29]. Shirazi and Volkamer [30] conducted interviews with 20 people on identification and tracking on the web, and found that their participants most often mentioned personalized advertising as a possible consequence, which some of them even considered to be beneficial.…”

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confidence: 99%

Why Johnny Fails to Protect his Privacy

Gerber

Zimmermann

Volkamer

2019

2019 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW)

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Albeit people worldwide cry out for the protection of their privacy, they often fail to successfully protect their private data. Possible reasons for this failure that have been identified in previous research include a lack of knowledge about possible privacy consequences, the negative outcome of a rational cost-benefit analysis, and insufficient ability for protection on the users' side. However, these findings mainly base on theoretical considerations or results from quantitative studies, and no comprehensive explanation for users' privacy behavior has been found so far. We thus conducted an interview study with 24 participants to qualitatively investigate what are (1) users' mental models of privacy consequences, (2) obstacles for privacy protection, and (3) strategies for privacy protection. Our results provide evidence for all possible explanations: We find that most of our participants are indeed unaware of most consequences that could result from not protecting their privacy besides personalized advertisement and financial loss. We also identify several obstacles for privacy protection, such as protection being too much effort, too complicated, users lacking knowledge, or social aspects. Protection strategies mostly base on reducing the amount of data disclosed and most users refrain from using advanced PETs. We further identified additional factors which influence whether people adopt measures to protect their privacy and propose a model which subsumes all factors that are relevant for people's decision to apply protection measures.

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"When I am on Wi-Fi, I am fearless"

Cited by 71 publications

References 18 publications

The practical politics of sharing personal data

The practical politics of sharing personal data

"What Can't Data Be Used For?": Privacy Expectations about Smart TVs in the U.S.

Why Johnny Fails to Protect his Privacy

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