Evaluating the Impact of Community Oversight for Managing Mobile Privacy and Security

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Main Authors: Akter, Mamtaj, Tabassum, Madiha, Miazi, Nazmus Sakib, Alghamdi, Leena, Kropczynski, Jess, Wisniewski, Pamela, Lipford, Heather
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Published: 2023
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author Akter, Mamtaj
Tabassum, Madiha
Miazi, Nazmus Sakib
Alghamdi, Leena
Kropczynski, Jess
Wisniewski, Pamela
Lipford, Heather
author_facet Akter, Mamtaj
Tabassum, Madiha
Miazi, Nazmus Sakib
Alghamdi, Leena
Kropczynski, Jess
Wisniewski, Pamela
Lipford, Heather
contents Mobile privacy and security can be a collaborative process where individuals seek advice and help from their trusted communities. To support such collective privacy and security management, we developed a mobile app for Community Oversight of Privacy and Security ("CO-oPS") that allows community members to review one another's apps installed and permissions granted to provide feedback. We conducted a four-week-long field study with 22 communities (101 participants) of friends, families, or co-workers who installed the CO-oPS app on their phones. Measures of transparency, trust, and awareness of one another's mobile privacy and security behaviors, along with individual and community participation in mobile privacy and security co-management, increased from pre- to post-study. Interview findings confirmed that the app features supported collective considerations of apps and permissions. However, participants expressed a range of concerns regarding having community members with different levels of technical expertise and knowledge regarding mobile privacy and security that can impact motivation to participate and perform oversight. Our study demonstrates the potential and challenges of community oversight mechanisms to support communities to co-manage mobile privacy and security.
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spellingShingle Evaluating the Impact of Community Oversight for Managing Mobile Privacy and Security
Akter, Mamtaj
Tabassum, Madiha
Miazi, Nazmus Sakib
Alghamdi, Leena
Kropczynski, Jess
Wisniewski, Pamela
Lipford, Heather
Human-Computer Interaction
Mobile privacy and security can be a collaborative process where individuals seek advice and help from their trusted communities. To support such collective privacy and security management, we developed a mobile app for Community Oversight of Privacy and Security ("CO-oPS") that allows community members to review one another's apps installed and permissions granted to provide feedback. We conducted a four-week-long field study with 22 communities (101 participants) of friends, families, or co-workers who installed the CO-oPS app on their phones. Measures of transparency, trust, and awareness of one another's mobile privacy and security behaviors, along with individual and community participation in mobile privacy and security co-management, increased from pre- to post-study. Interview findings confirmed that the app features supported collective considerations of apps and permissions. However, participants expressed a range of concerns regarding having community members with different levels of technical expertise and knowledge regarding mobile privacy and security that can impact motivation to participate and perform oversight. Our study demonstrates the potential and challenges of community oversight mechanisms to support communities to co-manage mobile privacy and security.
title Evaluating the Impact of Community Oversight for Managing Mobile Privacy and Security
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02289