论文标题
购买隐私：移动应用程序对隐私威胁的看法
Buying Privacy: User Perceptions of Privacy Threats from Mobile Apps
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论文摘要
随着技术和技术公司的权力，无处不在和社会影响力的发展，一些公司（尤其是某些移动应用程序）已被视为隐私威胁。先前的工作已经考虑了各种因素如何影响对威胁的看法，包括社会因素，政治言论和用户界面设计。在这项工作中，我们调查了用户可见的上下文线索如何影响对移动应用程序是否构成隐私威胁的看法。我们对2109位用户进行了用户研究，我们发现用户依赖上下文线索（例如，广告和发生的存在（以及付款时间）），以确定移动应用程序对构成隐私威胁的程度。我们还量化了用户评估与已发布的数据收集实践匹配的准确评估，并确定了对处理方式的普遍误解。这项工作提供了有关用户如何评估移动应用程序构成的隐私威胁以及围绕数据收集的社会规范的新见解。
As technology and technology companies have grown in power, ubiquity, and societal influence, some companies -- and notably some mobile apps -- have come to be perceived as privacy threats. Prior work has considered how various factors impact perceptions of threat, including social factors, political speech, and user-interface design. In this work, we investigate how user-visible context clues impact perceptions about whether a mobile application application poses a privacy threat. We conduct a user study with 2109 users in which we find that users depend on context clues -- such as presence of advertising and occurrence (and timing of payment) -- to determine the extent to which a mobile app poses a privacy threat. We also quantify how accurately user assessments match published data collection practices, and we identify a commonly-held misconception about how payments are processed. This work provides new insight into how users assess the privacy threat posed by mobile apps and into social norms around data collection.
