AP4L: Adaptive PETs to Protect & emPower People during Life Transitions

AP4L：自适应 PET 保护

• 批准号: EP/W032473/1
• 负责人: Nishanth Sastry
• 金额: $ 356.05万
• 依托单位: University of Surrey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FW032473%2F1
• 关键词: AP4L; Adaptive; PETs; Protect; emPower

AP4L is a 3-year program of interdisciplinary research, centring on the online privacy & vulnerability challenges that people face when going through major life transitions. Our central goal is to develop privacy-by-design technologies to protect & empower people during these transitions. Our work is driven by a narrative that will be familiar to most people. Life often "just happens", leading people to overlook their core privacy and online safety needs. For instance, somebody undergoing cancer treatment may be less likely to finesse their privacy setting on social media when discussing the topic. Similarly, an individual undergoing gender transition may be unaware of how their online activities in the past may shape the treatment into the future. This project will build the scientific and theoretical foundations to explore these challenges, as well as design and evaluate three core innovations that will address the identified challenges. AP4L will introduce a step-change, making online safety and privacy as painless and seamless as possible during life transitionsTo ensure a breadth of understanding, we will apply these concepts to four very different transitions through a series of carefully designed co-creation activities, devised as part of a stakeholder workshop held in Oct'21. These are relationship breakdowns; LBGT+ transitions or transitioning gender; entering/ leaving employment in the Armed Forces; and developing a serious illness or becoming terminally ill. Such transitions can significantly change privacy considerations in unanticipated or counter-intuitive ways. For example, previously enabled location-sharing with a partner may lead to stalking after a breakup; 'coming out' may need careful management across diverse audiences (e.g - friends, grandparents) on social media. We will study these transitions, following a creative security approach, bringing together interdisciplinary expertise in Computer Science, Law, Business, Psychology and Criminology.We will systematise this knowledge, and develop fundamental models of the nature of transitions and their interplay with online lives. These models will inform the development of a suite of technologies and solutions that will help people navigate significant life transitions through adaptive, personalised privacy-enhanced interventions that meet the needs of each individual and bolster their resilience, autonomy, competence and connection. The suite will comprise:(1) "Risk Playgrounds", which will build resilience by helping users to explore potentially risky interactions of life transitions with privacy settings across their digital footprint in safe ways (2) "Transition Guardians", which will provide real-time protection for users during life transitions. (3) "Security Bubbles", which will promote connection by bringing people together who can help each other (or who need to work together) during one person's life transition, whilst providing additional guarantees to safeguard everyone involved.In achieving this vision, and as evidenced by £686K of in-kind contributions, we will work with 26 core partners spanning legal enforcement agencies (e.g., Surrey Police), tech companies (e.g., Facebook, IBM), support networks (e.g., LGBT Foundation, Revenge Porn Helpline) and associated organisations (e.g., Ofcom, Mastercard, BBC). Impact will be delivered through various activities including a specially commissioned BBC series on online life transitions to share knowledge with the public; use of the outputs of our projects by companies & social platforms (e.g., by incorporating into their products, & by designing their products to take into consideration the findings of our project) & targeted workshops to enable knowledge exchange with partners & stakeholders.

AP4L是一项为期三年的跨学科研究计划，以人们在重大生活过渡进行的在线隐私和脆弱性挑战为中心。我们的核心目标是开发逐个设计的技术，以保护和授权这些过渡期间的人们。我们的作品是由大多数人熟悉的叙述所驱动的。生活经常“只是发生”，导致人们忽略了他们的核心隐私和在线安全需求。例如，在讨论该主题时，接受癌症治疗的人可能不太可能在社交媒体上进行隐私设置。同样，经历性别过渡的个人可能没有意识到他们过去的在线活动如何影响未来的治疗。该项目将建立科学和理论基础，以探索这些挑战，并设计并评估将解决确定挑战的三项核心创新。 AP4L将引入逐步变化，使在线安全和隐私在人生过渡过程中尽可能痛苦和无缝地确保了解广泛的理解，我们将通过一系列精心设计的共同创造活动将这些概念应用于四个截然不同的过渡，并设计为10月21日举行的利益相关者研讨会的一部分。这些是关系分解； LBGT+过渡或过渡性别；进入/离开武装部队；并患上严重的疾病或绝症。这样的过渡可以以意外或违反直觉的方式显着改变隐私考虑因素。例如，以前与合作伙伴一起启用的位置共享可能会导致分手后缠扰。 “出来”可能需要在社交媒体上进行仔细管理（例如 - 朋友，祖父母）。我们将按照创造性的安全方法研究这些过渡，将计算机科学，法律，商业，心理学和犯罪学方面的跨学科专业知识汇总在一起。我们将系统化这些知识，并开发过渡性质及其与在线生活的相互作用的基本模型。这些模型将为一系列技术和解决方案提供开发，这些技术和解决方案将通过适应性的，个性化的隐私增强干预措施来帮助人们进行重大的生活转变，这些干预措施满足每个人的需求并增强其韧性，自主权，能力和联系。该套件将完成：（1）“风险游乐场”，通过帮助用户探索以安全的方式（2）“过渡监护人”在其数字范围内与隐私环境的潜在风险相互作用，从而增强了韧性，这将为用户提供实时保护在生命过渡过程中。 （3）“安全气泡”，这将通过使一个人在一个人的生活过渡期间相互帮助（或需要共同努力的人）来促进联系，同时提供额外的保证来维护每个人所涉及的每个人。 IBM），支持网络（例如，LGBT基金会，复仇色情热线求助热线索引）和相关组织（例如Ofcom，MasterCard，BBC）。影响将通过各种活动来产生，包括专门委托的BBC系列在线生活过渡，以与公众分享知识；使用公司和社交平台（例如，通过将其产品纳入其产品，并设计其产品以考虑我们的项目的发现）和有针对性的研讨会，以与合作伙伴和利益相关者进行知识交流，从而使用我们项目的产出。

项目成果

Usage Mining of the London Santander Bike-Sharing System

• DOI: 10.1109/mc.2022.3193308
• 发表时间: 2022-12
• 期刊: Computer
• 影响因子: 2.2
• 作者: Suparna De;Wei Wang;Usamah Jassat;K. Moessner

Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing

去中心化网络的毒性和模型共享的潜力

• DOI: 10.1145/3530901
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
• 作者: Bin Zia H

Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse

管理员会应付吗？

• DOI: 10.1145/3543507.3583487
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Anaobi I

Jettisoning Junk Messaging in the Era of End-to-End Encryption: A Case Study of WhatsApp

• DOI: 10.1145/3485447.3512130
• 发表时间: 2021-06
• 期刊: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022
• 作者: Pushkal Agarwal;Aravindh Raman;Damilola Ibosiola;Nishanth R. Sastry;Gareth Tyson;Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella

Semantics-based privacy by design for Internet of Things applications

针对物联网应用设计的基于语义的隐私

• DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2022.08.013
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Future Generation Computer Systems
• 作者: Alkhariji L