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.

AP 4L是一个为期3年的跨学科研究计划，重点是人们在经历重大生活转变时面临的在线隐私和脆弱性挑战。我们的核心目标是开发隐私设计技术，以保护和授权这些过渡期间的人。我们的工作是由大多数人都熟悉的叙述驱动的。生活往往“只是发生”，导致人们忽视了他们的核心隐私和在线安全需求。例如，正在接受癌症治疗的人在讨论这个话题时，可能不太可能在社交媒体上巧妙地设置他们的隐私。同样，经历性别转变的个体可能不知道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，以及设计和评估三个核心创新，将解决已确定的挑战。AP 4L将引入一个步骤的变化，使在线安全和隐私在生活过渡期间尽可能无痛和无缝为了确保广泛的理解，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非常不同的过渡，作为10月21日举行的利益相关者研讨会的一部分。这些是关系破裂; LBGT+过渡或过渡性别;进入/离开武装部队就业;患重病或患绝症。这种转变可能会以意想不到或违反直觉的方式显着改变隐私考虑。例如，先前启用的与伴侣的位置共享可能导致分手后的跟踪;“出柜”可能需要在社交媒体上的不同受众（例如，朋友，祖父母）之间进行仔细管理。我们将研究这些过渡，遵循创造性的安全方法，汇集计算机科学，法律，商业，心理学和犯罪学的跨学科专业知识。我们将系统化这些知识，并开发过渡性质及其与在线生活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的开发提供信息，这些技术和解决方案将帮助人们通过适应性的、个性化的、增强隐私的干预措施来应对重大的生活转变，这些干预措施将满足每个人的需求，并增强他们的韧性、自主性、能力和联系。该套件将包括：（1）“风险游乐场”，将通过帮助用户以安全的方式探索生活过渡与其数字足迹中隐私设置的潜在风险互动来建立弹性（2）“过渡监护人”，将在生活过渡期间为用户提供实时保护。(3)“安全泡沫”，这将通过将人们聚集在一起，在一个人的生活过渡期间互相帮助（或需要一起工作），同时提供额外的保障，以保护每个人。为了实现这一愿景，正如68.6万英镑的实物捐助所证明的那样，我们将与跨越法律的执法机构的26个核心合作伙伴（例如，萨里警察），科技公司（例如，Facebook、IBM）、支持网络（例如，LGBT基金会、复仇色情求助热线）和相关组织（例如，Ofcom、Mastercard、BBC）。将通过各种活动产生影响，包括特别委托BBC制作的关于在线生活转型的系列节目，以与公众分享知识;公司和社交平台使用我们项目的成果（例如，通过将其纳入产品，并通过设计其产品以考虑我们项目的结果）和有针对性的研讨会，以便与合作伙伴和利益相关者进行知识交流。

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

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

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