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Privacy-awareness information for web forums: results from an empirical study

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Stefanie Pötzsch,

Peter Wolkerstorfer,

Cornelia GrafAuthors Info & Claims

NordiCHI '10: Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries

Pages 363 - 372

https://doi.org/10.1145/1868914.1868957

Published: 16 October 2010 Publication History

Abstract

While interacting with others on the internet, users share a lot of personal data with a potentially large but "invisible" audience. An important issue is maintaining control over personal data and therefore, in the first place, users need to be aware to whom they are disclosing which data. Based on the cues-filtered-out theory we introduce a new feature to support the privacy-awareness of forum users and tested it with 313 users. The results of our empirical study show that the presentation of privacy-related context cues indeed increases forum users' privacy-awareness. This is an important precondition for users' willingness to modify privacy settings or to use privacy-enhancing technologies.

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Ebert NAckermann KHeinrich PBernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)Does Context in Privacy Communication Really Matter? A Survey on Consumer Concerns and PreferencesProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3313831.3376575(1-11)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3313831.3376575
Wong RMulligan DBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)Bringing Design to the Privacy TableProceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290605.3300492(1-17)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
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