Enhancing the privacy risk awareness of teenagers in online social networks through soft-paternalism mechanisms
Enhancing the privacy risk awareness of teenagers in online social networks through soft-paternalism mechanisms
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ijhcs.2019.03.008
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发表时间：
2019-09-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Garcia-Fornes, A.
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作者：
Alemany, J.;del Val, E.;Garcia-Fornes, A.
在线社交网络（OSNs）中的隐私风险是近年来人们日益关注的主要问题之一。尽管社交网络应用提供了控制风险的机制，但青少年往往没有意识到在线社交网络中披露信息的隐私风险。隐私决策过程是复杂的，用户往往没有充分的知识和足够的时间来评估所有可能的情况。他们没有考虑到能够接触到披露信息的受众，也没有考虑到如果信息继续传播并到达意想不到的受众所面临的风险。为了解决这些问题，我们提出了两种软家长制机制，向用户提供有关在社交网络上发布信息的隐私风险的信息。这种隐私风险是基于复杂的隐私度量。为了评估其机制，我们对42名青少年进行了实验。提出的机制被包含在一个名为PESEDIA的社交网络中。结果表明，当网络中包含这些机制时，青少年对更好的隐私实践的行为存在显著差异。
Privacy Risk in Online Social Networks (OSNs) is one of the main concerns that has increased in the last few years. Even though social network applications provide mechanisms to control risk, teenagers are not often aware of the privacy risks of disclosing information in online social networks. The privacy decision-making process is complex and users often do not have full knowledge and enough time to evaluate all potential scenarios. They do not consider the audience that will have access to disclosed information or the risk if the information continues to spread and reaches an unexpected audience. To deal with these issues, we propose two soft-paternalism mechanisms that provide information to the user about the privacy risk of publishing information on a social network. That privacy risk is based on a complex privacy metric. To evaluate the mechanisms, we performed an experiment with 42 teenagers. The proposed mechanisms were included in a social network called PESEDIA. The results show that there are significant differences in teenagers' behaviors towards better privacy practices when the mechanisms are included in the network.