Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Understanding the Impact of Privacy Interventions on the Online Publishing Ecosystem

协作研究：SaTC：核心：媒介：了解隐私干预对在线出版生态系统的影响

• 批准号: 2237329
• 负责人: Cristobal Cheyre
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-15 至 2026-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2237329&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; SaTC; CORE; Medium

The project studies the impact of privacy interventions on the online publishing industry. Widespread concerns over online privacy have led governments worldwide to enact new privacy regulations and have compelled firms to implement self-regulatory data-protection initiatives. While such privacy interventions are often positively received by the public, industry stakeholders have suggested that privacy interventions may reduce the availability of free, ad-supported online content and services. Online publishers and their ability to provide content play a crucial role in democratic societies. The project integrates technical, organizational, behavioral, and economic studies to investigate how the implementation of privacy interventions impacts publishers, their users, and various downstream economic outcomes. The project aims at providing insights for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners toward understanding and designing effective privacy interventions without endangering digital products and services. The project leverages collaborations with media companies granting access to data from a large set of heterogeneous websites. The novel contributions of the project include: 1) the investigation of factors influencing publishers’ compliance with privacy interventions; 2) the creation of an open auditing API for automated remote compliance auditing of publishers’ systems; 3) the analysis of users’ responses to privacy mechanisms to understand the extent to which privacy initiatives translate into usable tools for users; 4) the investigation of the impact of privacy implementations on user engagement and experience; 5) the investigation of how the implementation of privacy initiatives affects publishers’ revenues from online advertising; and 6) the investigation of how the gains from user data are allocated across the stakeholders in the online publishing ecosystem in the presence of privacy initiatives. The collaboration with media companies enables quick transfer of research findings to the industry. The results of the research are incorporated in courses on online privacy and its impact on publishers and society.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目研究了隐私干预对在线出版行业的影响。对在线隐私的广泛关注使全世界政府制定了新的隐私法规，并迫使公司实施自我调节性数据保护计划。尽管这种隐私干预措施经常被公众积极接受，但行业利益相关者建议隐私干预措施可以减少免费，广告支持的在线内容和服务的可用性。在线出版商及其提供内容的能力在民主社会中起着至关重要的作用。该项目将技术，组织，行为和经济研究整合在一起，以研究隐私干预措施的实施如何影响出版商，其用户以及各种下游经济成果。该项目旨在为学者，政策制定者和从业人员提供见解，以理解和设计有效的隐私干预措施，而无需危害数字产品和服务。该项目利用与媒体公司合作，授予从大量异构网站中访问数据的访问。该项目的新颖贡献包括：1）因素的投资影响出版商遵守隐私干预措施； 2）创建开放审核API，用于自动化出版商系统的自动远程合规性审核； 3）分析用户对隐私机制的响应，以了解隐私计划转化为用户可用工具的程度； 4）隐私实施对用户参与和经验的影响； 5）实施隐私计划的投资如何影响出版商在线广告中的揭示； 6）在存在隐私计划的情况下，如何在在线出版生态系统中分配从用户数据收益的投资。与媒体公司的合作使研究结果可以快速转移到该行业。该研究的结果纳入了有关在线隐私及其对出版商和社会的影响的课程。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，认为通过评估被认为是宝贵的支持。

项目成果

Trends in Privacy Dialog Design after the GDPR: The Impact of Industry and Government Actions

GDPR 后隐私对话设计的趋势：行业和政府行为的影响

• DOI: 10.1145/3603216.3624963
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: ACM WPES '23: Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society
• 作者: Warberg, Logan;Lefrere, Vincent;Cheyre, Cristobal;Acquisti, Alessandro
• 通讯作者: Acquisti, Alessandro