Understanding and Mitigating Technology-Facilitated Privacy Violations in the Physical World

MCML Authors

Maximiliane Windl

Dr.

* Former Member

→ Group Albrecht Schmidt
 Human-Centered Ubiquitous Media

Albrecht Schmidt

Prof. Dr.

Core PI

Human-Centered Ubiquitous Media

Abstract

We are constantly surrounded by technology that collects and processes sensitive data, paving the way for privacy violations. Yet, current research investigating technology-facilitated privacy violations in the physical world is scattered and focused on specific scenarios or investigates such violations purely from an expert’s perspective. Informed through a large-scale online survey, we first construct a scenario taxonomy based on user-experienced privacy violations in the physical world through technology. We then validate our taxonomy and establish mitigation strategies using interviews and co-design sessions with privacy and security experts. In summary, this work contributes (1) a refined scenario taxonomy for technology-facilitated privacy violations in the physical world, (2) an understanding of how privacy violations manifest in the physical world, (3) a decision tree on how to inform users, and (4) a design space to create notices whenever adequate. With this, we contribute a conceptual framework to enable a privacy-preserving technology-connected world.

inproceedings WWS+23

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CHI 2023

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Hamburg, Germany, Apr 23-28, 2023.

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Authors

M. Windl • V. Winterhalter • A. Schmidt • S. Mayer

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Research Area

 C5 | Humane AI