HCC: Small: View of Privacy in Older Adults

本研究探讨了老龄化、信息社会中的金融安全以及老年人对数字信息技术风险的认知之间的相互作用。最终的技术目标是改善美国老年人的安全和隐私技术设计。请注意，互联网上的安全性是由年轻的、喜欢冒险的技术人员设计的，他们主要是男性。根据定义，那些需要安全互联网的65岁以上的人年龄较大，也不愿冒险，很少是技术人员，而且往往是女性。安全系统设计者的心智模型与这一不断增长的用户群体之间存在不匹配，这并不奇怪。在方法方面，本研究将包括结合传统调查的规模来检验多媒体的价值。具体而言，该研究将评估多媒体交互技术的包容性，使其能够包含以前仅在较小规模的定性工作中可能存在的细微差别。计算机安全系统不适合老年人的影响是深远的，改善这种不匹配是这项工作的更广泛的含义。这么多的财富从来没有被这么多的掠夺者轻易获取过。有组织犯罪从遥远的司法管辖区蔓延开来，美国执法部门无法反击。财富集中在65岁以上的美国人身上，全球网络不安全，用于身份验证的个人身份信息的可用性，有组织的网络犯罪日益增加，以及老年人不成比例地缺乏技术专长，这些因素结合在一起，可能会形成一场完美的数字风暴。然而，对这个问题的研究还远远不够。如果没有专门为老年人服务的计算机安全技术，这些风险就无法得到有效、系统的解决。

This research addresses open questions on the interaction of aging, financial security in an information society, and elder perceptions of the risks of digital information technologies. The end technological goal is to improve the design of security and privacy technologies for older Americans. Note that security on the Internet is designed by younger, risk-seeking technologists who are primarily male. Those over 65 who require a secure Internet are by definition older, also risk-averse, rarely technologists, and more often than not female. It is not surprising that there is a mismatch between the mental models of secure system designers and this growing group of users. In terms of method, this research will include an examination of the value of multimedia combined with the scale enabled by traditional surveys. Specifically, the research will evaluate the inclusion of multimedia interactive technologies in terms of enabling inclusion of the nuance previously possible only in smaller scale qualitative work.The implications of computer security being systematically ill-suited for elders are profound, and improving this mismatch is the broader implication of this work. Never has so much wealth been accessible with such ease by so many predators. Organized crime reaches out from remote jurisdictions, where American law enforcement cannot reach back. The combination of the concentration of wealth among Americans over age 65, the global unsecured network, availability of personally identifiable information used for authentication, increasingly organized online crime, and the disproportionate lack of technical expertise among elders can create a perfect digital storm. Yet this problem is profoundly under-studied. Without computer security technology built to serve elders, these risks cannot be effectively, systematically addressed.