CRII: SaTC: RUI: Understanding and Addressing the Security and Privacy Needs of At-Risk Populations

科技和互联网越来越多地介入我们的个人和公共生活，为人们提供了许多好处，但也给我们的隐私带来了风险。少数群体和边缘化群体在使用技术时尤其受益于信息、社区和社会参与。然而，他们也处于更危险的境地。他们更有可能成为目标，而且可能没有更少的资源来保护自己。技术可能不是为满足他们的需求而设计的。当他们的个人生活被披露时，这类群体尤其面临风险，在某些情况下，他们还会在网上与许多人交流。他们可能面临各种不寻常的安全和隐私问题，包括他们的离线身份被泄露，有针对性的骚扰或Doding，以及在与使用异常行为(如使用化名)作为怀疑启发式的安全系统交互时的可用性故障，如账户锁定。这个项目将研究可能面临风险的人如何使用技术，以及他们经历了什么安全和隐私危险。它的目标是创造更好地满足我们社会所有人需求的新技术。这个项目调查了人们的个人生活如何在网上受到威胁，以及他们面临的计算机安全和隐私挑战。该项目使用调查和访谈，并根据这些数据的结果设计系统。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

Technology and the internet are increasingly involved in our personal as well as public lives, providing people with many benefits, but also creating risks to our privacy. Minority and marginalized groups especially benefit from information, community, and social engagement when they use technology. However, they are also in more danger. They are more likely to be targeted, and may have fewer resources to protect themselves. Technology may not be designed for their needs. Such groups are especially at risk when their personal lives are revealed and, in some cases, communicated to many online. They can face a variety of unusual security and privacy concerns, including the revelation of their offline identity, targeted harassment or doxing, and usability failures such as account lockout when interacting with security systems that use abnormal behavior (such as the use of pseudonyms) as heuristics for suspicion. This project will study how people who may be at risk use technology and what security and privacy dangers they experience. It has the goal to create new technology that better meets the needs of all people in our society. This project investigates how people's personal lives can be compromised online and what computer security and privacy challenges they have. The project uses surveys and interviews, and designs systems informed by the results of those data. Contributions will include the development of guidelines for inclusive design and the generalization of those guidelines to marginalized groups, the creation of new systems responding to problems faced by these groups, and the evaluation of the effectiveness of these systems for supporting users' real world needs.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.