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Investigating People’s Privacy Risk Perception

Gerber, Nina; Reinheimer, Benjamin; Volkamer, Melanie

Abstract:

Although media reports often warn about risks associated with using privacy-threatening technologies , most lay users lack awareness of particular adverse consequences that could result from this usage. Since this might lead them to underestimate the risks of data collection, we investigate how lay users perceive different abstract and specific privacy risks. To this end, we conducted a survey with 942 participants in which we asked them to rate nine different privacy risk scenarios in terms of probability and severity. The survey included abstract risk scenarios as well as specific risk scenarios, which describe specifically how collected data can be abused, e.g., to stalk someone or to plan burglaries. To gain broad insights into people's risk perception, we considered three use cases: Online Social Networks (OSN), smart home, and smart health devices. Our results suggest that abstract and specific risk scenarios are perceived differently, with abstract risk scenarios being evaluated as likely, but only moderately severe, whereas specific risk scenarios are considered to be rather severe, but only moderately likely. People, thus, do not seem to be aware of specific privacy risks when confronted with an abstract risk scenario. ... mehr


Verlagsausgabe §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000096824
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.2478/popets-2019-0047
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Zitationen: 33
Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB)
Kompetenzzentrum für angewandte Sicherheitstechnologie (KASTEL)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsmonat/-jahr 07.2019
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2299-0984
KITopen-ID: 1000096824
Erschienen in Proceedings on privacy enhancing technologies
Verlag De Gruyter
Band 2019
Heft 3
Seiten 267–288
Projektinformation GHOST (EU, H2020, 740923)
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