Social Apps' Data Practices and Privacy Permission Dialogues: A Field Study
Event details
| Date | 18.06.2012 |
| Hour | 14:00 › 15:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Jens Grossklags, Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract:
Several studies have documented the constantly evolving privacy practices of social networking sites and users' misunderstandings about them. Justifiably, users have
criticized the interfaces to "configure" their privacy preferences as opaque, disjointed, uninformative and ultimately ineffective. The same problems have also plagued the
constantly growing economy of third-party applications and their equally troubling authentication and authorization dialogues with important options being unavailable
at installation time and/or widely distributed across the sites' privacy options pages.
In this talk, I will discuss the results of a field study of the current authorization dialogue for the currently dominant social networking site as well as four canonical designs of installation dialogues which are based on the internationally favored Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs). In particular, we study and document the effectiveness of installation-time configuration and awareness-enhancing interface changes when 250 users investigate our experimental application in the privacy of their homes.
Bio:
Dr. Grossklags is an Assistant Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. He is affiliated with the Security and Risk Analysis program and a member of the steering committee of the Center for the Study of Global Financial Stability. Previously, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy, and as a Lecturer of Computer Science at Princeton University. In 2009, he completed his doctoral dissertation at UC Berkeley's School of Information. While at UC Berkeley, he also obtained master's degrees in Computer Science, and Information Management and
Systems.
He is studying information privacy, security, technology policy and networked interactions from a theoretical, empirical and practical perspective. Specifically,
Dr. Grossklags is motivated to contribute to a better understanding of the current and future marketplace for personal and corporate information, and improved designs of the underlying evolving security infrastructure. His academic work is very cross-disciplinary and utilizes analytic, empirical and experimental methodologies.
Several studies have documented the constantly evolving privacy practices of social networking sites and users' misunderstandings about them. Justifiably, users have
criticized the interfaces to "configure" their privacy preferences as opaque, disjointed, uninformative and ultimately ineffective. The same problems have also plagued the
constantly growing economy of third-party applications and their equally troubling authentication and authorization dialogues with important options being unavailable
at installation time and/or widely distributed across the sites' privacy options pages.
In this talk, I will discuss the results of a field study of the current authorization dialogue for the currently dominant social networking site as well as four canonical designs of installation dialogues which are based on the internationally favored Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs). In particular, we study and document the effectiveness of installation-time configuration and awareness-enhancing interface changes when 250 users investigate our experimental application in the privacy of their homes.
Bio:
Dr. Grossklags is an Assistant Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. He is affiliated with the Security and Risk Analysis program and a member of the steering committee of the Center for the Study of Global Financial Stability. Previously, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy, and as a Lecturer of Computer Science at Princeton University. In 2009, he completed his doctoral dissertation at UC Berkeley's School of Information. While at UC Berkeley, he also obtained master's degrees in Computer Science, and Information Management and
Systems.
He is studying information privacy, security, technology policy and networked interactions from a theoretical, empirical and practical perspective. Specifically,
Dr. Grossklags is motivated to contribute to a better understanding of the current and future marketplace for personal and corporate information, and improved designs of the underlying evolving security infrastructure. His academic work is very cross-disciplinary and utilizes analytic, empirical and experimental methodologies.
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Organizer
- SuRI 2012
Contact
- Simone Muller