TY - GEN
T1 - An online experiment of privacy authorization dialogues for social applications
AU - Wang, Na
AU - Grossklags, Jens
AU - Xu, Heng
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Several studies have documented the constantly evolving privacy practices of social networking sites and users' misunderstandings about them. Researchers have criticized the interfaces to "configure" privacy preferences as opaque, uninformative, and ineffective. The same problems have also plagued the constant growth of third-party applications and their troubling privacy authorization dialogues. In this paper, we report the results of an experimental study examining the limitations of current privacy authorization dialogues on Facebook as well as four new designs which we developed based on the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs). Through an online experiment with 250 users, we study and document the effectiveness of installation-time configuration and awareness-enhancing interface changes.
AB - Several studies have documented the constantly evolving privacy practices of social networking sites and users' misunderstandings about them. Researchers have criticized the interfaces to "configure" privacy preferences as opaque, uninformative, and ineffective. The same problems have also plagued the constant growth of third-party applications and their troubling privacy authorization dialogues. In this paper, we report the results of an experimental study examining the limitations of current privacy authorization dialogues on Facebook as well as four new designs which we developed based on the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs). Through an online experiment with 250 users, we study and document the effectiveness of installation-time configuration and awareness-enhancing interface changes.
KW - Information privacy
KW - Online social networks (OSNs)
KW - Privacy awareness and control
KW - Privacy notice and consent
KW - Third-party applications (apps)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84874924586&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2441776.2441807
DO - 10.1145/2441776.2441807
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874924586
SN - 9781450313315
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 261
EP - 272
BT - CSCW 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
T2 - 2013 2nd ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2013
Y2 - 23 February 2013 through 27 February 2013
ER -