Brave new world

Aditya, Paarijaat; Bhattacharjee, Bobby; Druschel, Peter; Erdélyi, Viktor; Lentz, Matthew

doi:10.1145/2646584.2646585

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“…Users grant data access to apps that gather a huge amount of personal and sensitive information, often considerably more than they actually need for the services they provide (Agarwal & Hall, 2013;Felt et al, 2011;Vidas et al, 2011). In many cases, people lack the ability and knowledge to manage their privacy (Aditya et al, 2014;Park & Jang, 2014). Furthermore, people are rarely aware of data regulations and of the value of their data (Acquisti et al, 2016;Steel et al, 2013), but when they get informed about the importance and value of their personal data, the risks related to data exposure and how to address them, many of them take action (Zyfallari, 2021).…”

Section: Privacy Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

The iBuddy experience: A digital simulation-based approach to enhance secondary school students’ privacy awareness

Botturi,

Fioroni,

Beretta

et al. 2023

Education Tech Research Dev

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Privacy is a central issue in the digitalization of society and directly concerns all Internet users. Privacy education is part of the picture of a more just digital society: it aims at making users more aware of the importance of their data and of the technical and financial tools and processes that involve their personal data. Nonetheless, privacy education is confronted with a paradox: while people perceive the importance of privacy, they seldom take action to actually protect their personal data. iBuddy is a narrative simulation-based session inspired by research evidence about the privacy paradox and aims to (a) enhancing awareness and (b) promoting the uptake of privacy-safe behaviors for secondary and higher students (age range 11–20). The paper presents the design and development of the simulation and of the following modular debriefing, as a case study in evidence-based collaborative instructional design and in the instructional used of digital technology. The evaluation of iBuddy, which combined a post-session satisfaction and perceived learning survey (N = 978) and a follow-up survey (N = 124), provides insights in the novel domain of privacy education. Results suggests that iBuddy sessions are engaging, effective and conducive to medium-term behavioral change, thus indirectly confirming the design assumptions about how to tackle the privacy paradox through a simulation-based approach.

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Section: Privacy Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

The iBuddy experience: A digital simulation-based approach to enhance secondary school students’ privacy awareness

Botturi,

Fioroni,

Beretta

et al. 2023

Education Tech Research Dev

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Privacy Perception when Using Smartphone Applications

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Our smartphone is full of applications and data that analytically organize, facilitate and describe our lives. We install applications for the most varied reasons, to inform us, to have fun, for work, for necessity, but, unfortunately, we often install them without reading the terms and conditions of use. The result is that our privacy is increasingly at risk. Considering this scenario, in this paper, we analyze the user's perception towards privacy while using smartphone applications. In particular, we formulate two different hypotheses: 1) the perception of privacy is influenced by the knowledge of the data used by the installed applications; 2) applications access to much more data than they need. The study is based on two questionnaires (within-subject experiments with 200 volunteers) and on the lists of installed apps (30 volunteers). Results show a widespread abuse of data related to location, personal contacts, camera, Wi-Fi network list, running apps list, and vibration. An indepth analysis shows that some features are more relevant to certain groups of users (e.g., adults are mainly worried about contacts and Wi-Fi connection lists; iOS users are sensitive to smartphone vibration; female participants are worried about possible misuse of the smartphone camera).

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