Measurement and control of geo-location privacy on Twitter

Luceri, Luca; Andreoletti, Davide; Tornatore, Massimo; Braun, Torsten; Giordano, Silvia

doi:10.1016/j.osnem.2020.100078

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“…The majority of interviewees (35) in the current study answered in the affirmative when they were asked whether they feel relieved when the application is in operation. The following quote is illustrative:…”

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confidence: 98%

“…They offer information on points of interest and entertainment options in AR games [ 31 ], and promote connections with friends [ 32 ] by updating users’ presentation of the self on social media that corresponds to users’ locations (“showing off”) [ 33 ]. Scholars have voiced concerns about how location-based technology, combined with social media, infringes upon, or has the potential to seriously infringe upon, users’ privacy [ 34 , 35 ].…”

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In WAZE we trust? GPS-based navigation application users’ behavior and patterns of dependency

Laor

Galily²

2022

PLoS ONE

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Functional technological applications have become an integral part of our lives changing our patterns of reasoning and behavior. The current study examines whether, how and why use of WAZE app, a popular GPS-based navigation application, demonstrate behaviors and patterns which resemble those of technological dependency. We conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with 50 WAZE users. The questions took inspiration from the model of IT addiction, which identifies six behavioral parameters: withdrawal, conflict, mood modification, relapse, tolerance, and saliency. The novelty of the study lies in the evidence of patterns and behaviors which resemble technological dependency on the WAZE app. The findings indicate that WAZE app satisfies users’ needs driven by functionality. Four behavioral characteristics associated with IT addiction are applicable to WAZE users: mood modification, conflict, relapse, and withdrawal. The study concludes that functional technological applications may trigger behavioral indicators of technological addiction.

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In WAZE we trust? GPS-based navigation application users’ behavior and patterns of dependency

Laor

Galily²

2022

PLoS ONE

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“…Other times instead, the patterns of diffusion were top-down, involving large numbers of users, automated (Ferrara et al 2020) or otherwise (Jachim, Sharevski, and Pieroni 2021), that coordinated to amplify narratives proposed by influential users. Among the plethora of intertwined false narratives, "Stop the Steal" gave rise to an advocacy organization responsible for multiple riots across the country (Luceri, Cresci, and Giordano 2021). The "Stop the Steal" campaign spread across multiple platforms (La Gatta et al 2023) pushing allegations that the election was stolen and inciting Trump supporters to overturn the result (Benkler et al 2020; Election Integrity Partnership 2020): One year after the election, up to one-third of the US population still believed that the electoral outcome was not to be trusted (Matatov, Naaman, and Amir 2022;Pennycook and Rand 2021).…”

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“…The US Capitol attack was seen as an attempted coup d'état (Jacobson 2021), organized and promoted online, with violent actions and repercussions offline (Election Integrity Partnership 2020; Luceri, Cresci, and Giordano 2021). In the aftermath of the attack, the US House of Representatives established a Select Committee to investigate the Capitol attack, and the role of social media in relation to the "spread of misinformation, efforts to overturn the 2020 election, domestic violent extremism, and foreign influence in the 2020 election".…”

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Tracking Fringe and Coordinated Activity on Twitter Leading Up to the US Capitol Attack

Vishnuprasad,

Nogara,

Cardoso

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The aftermath of the 2020 US Presidential Election witnessed an unprecedented attack on the democratic values of the country through the violent insurrection at Capitol Hill on January 6th, 2021. The attack was fueled by the proliferation of conspiracy theories and misleading claims about the integrity of the election pushed by political elites and fringe communities on social media. In this study, we explore the evolution of fringe content and conspiracy theories on Twitter in the seven months leading up to the Capitol attack. We examine the suspicious coordinated activity carried out by users sharing fringe content, finding evidence of common adversarial manipulation techniques ranging from targeted amplification to manufactured consensus. Further, we map out the temporal evolution of, and the relationship between, fringe and conspiracy theories, which eventually coalesced into the rhetoric of a stolen election, with the hashtag #stopthesteal, alongside QAnon-related narratives. Our findings further highlight how social media platforms offer fertile ground for the widespread proliferation of conspiracies during and in the aftermath of major societal events, which can potentially lead to offline coordinated actions and organized violence.

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“…Today personal data and digital profiles are a source of wealth. Digital traces can be used, with more or less accurate results, for example to monitor healthcare (Kogan et al, 2021 ), to steer marketing campaigns (Airoldi, 2021 ), to predict voting behaviors (Bach et al, 2021 ), so that data is more and more the new oil (Humby, 2006 ) fueling platform capitalism (Srnicek, 2017 ). Nonetheless, the processes by which our personal data are collected, stored, elaborated and used still remain largely invisible and unknown to most people.…”

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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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Measurement and control of geo-location privacy on Twitter

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

In WAZE we trust? GPS-based navigation application users’ behavior and patterns of dependency

In WAZE we trust? GPS-based navigation application users’ behavior and patterns of dependency

Tracking Fringe and Coordinated Activity on Twitter Leading Up to the US Capitol Attack

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

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