CT-ISG: POCKET: A Technical and Behavioral Concept for Protecting Children's Online Privacy

这项研究旨在为儿童网络隐私的独特保护提供技术上可行和法律上合理的解决方案，儿童网络隐私的可信性显示出很大的收养潜力，这是过去研究长期忽视的一个主题。技术解决方案必须注入来自法律和商业专业人员、信息系统分析师和潜在用户的反馈，以提高可用性和增强感知的可信度。这一概念验证名为Pocket-Parental Online同意儿童电子交易。Pocket使用模块化架构，在保护在线交换的信息方面非常有效，同时将用户的负担降至最低。该项目的任务包括：研究父母对在线共享信息的儿童的知识和态度，并记录以前解决方案失败的原因；设计一个框架，将法律、信任和收养因素整合到Pocket中；建立一个原型，为获得父母同意和保护儿童隐私提供技术上的、值得信赖的解决方案；最后测试和验证Pocket的有效性。这个项目的智力价值在于跨学科项目团队的实力和所解决问题的重要性。该小组包括不仅从技术角度而且从社会和法律角度处理这一问题所需的广泛专业知识。PI和其他相关人员都可以为该项目提供重要的专业知识，这是一个高风险和困难的项目，但也具有很高的回报潜力。该项目提供了可用于在线保护儿童的新工具，以及对父母和其他人在隐私问题上的做法和关切的新见解。此外，在模型检测安全协议领域有可能出现新的技术成果。该项目更广泛的影响在于有可能提高儿童的网络安全。此外，该项目还为家长开发和测试了一种新工具的原型，并提高了家长对所涉严重问题的认识。这项研究涉及不同的人群，包括大量的社区外展和传播。这项研究提供了一个多学科合作的机会，从性别、种族、互联网经验程度和促进儿童作为一个代表不足的群体的兴趣等方面，让父母和儿童参与进来。

This research aims to offer a technically feasible and legally sound solution to the unique protection of children's online privacy, whose trustworthiness displays a strong potential for adoption, a subject long ignored by past research. The technical solutions must be infused with feedback from legal and business professionals, information systems analysts, and potential users in order to improve usability and bolster perceived trustworthiness. This proof-of-concept is named POCKET - Parental Online Consent for Kids' Electronic Transactions. POCKET utilizes a modularized architecture, which is very effective in protecting the information exchanged online while minimizing the user's burden. The tasks of this project include: study parental knowledge of and attitudes toward children sharing information online and document causes of the failure of previous solutions; design a framework for integrating legal, trust, and adoption factors into POCKET; build a prototype that will provide a technical, trustworthy solution to obtaining parental consent and protecting children's privacy; finally test and verify the effectiveness of POCKET. The intellectual merit of this project lies in both the strength of the interdisciplinary project team and the significance of the problem addressed. The team includes a broad range of expertise need to approach the problem from not only a technical but also a social and legal perspective. The PI and others involved all have significant expertise to offer to the project, which is high risk and difficult but also has high potential for return. The project offers new tools that can be used to protect children online as well as new insights into the practices and concerns of parents and others with respect to privacy issues. In addition, there is a potential for new technical results in the area of model-checking security protocols. The broader impacts of the project lie in the potential to increase the online safety of children. In additional the project develops and tests a prototype of a new tool for parents as well as raises the awareness among parents of the serious issues involved. The study involves a diverse population and includes significant community outreach and dissemination. This research provides an opportunity for multidisciplinary collaboration, involving parents and children from a wide demographic in terms of gender, ethnicity, degree of internet experience, and advancing the interests of children as an under-represented group.