Shortchanged: Uncovering and Analyzing Intimate Partner Financial Abuse in Consumer Complaints

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Main Authors: Bhattacharya, Arkaprabha, Lee, Kevin, Ravi, Vineeth, Staddon, Jessica, Bellini, Rosanna
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Published: 2024
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author Bhattacharya, Arkaprabha
Lee, Kevin
Ravi, Vineeth
Staddon, Jessica
Bellini, Rosanna
author_facet Bhattacharya, Arkaprabha
Lee, Kevin
Ravi, Vineeth
Staddon, Jessica
Bellini, Rosanna
contents Digital financial services can introduce new digital-safety risks for users, particularly survivors of intimate partner financial abuse (IPFA). To offer improved support for such users, a comprehensive understanding of their support needs and the barriers they face to redress by financial institutions is essential. Drawing from a dataset of 2.7 million customer complaints, we implement a bespoke workflow that utilizes language-modeling techniques and expert human review to identify complaints describing IPFA. Our mixed-method analysis provides insight into the most common digital financial products involved in these attacks, and the barriers consumers report encountering when doing so. Our contributions are twofold; we offer the first human-labeled dataset for this overlooked harm and provide practical implications for technical practice, research, and design for better supporting and protecting survivors of IPFA.
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spellingShingle Shortchanged: Uncovering and Analyzing Intimate Partner Financial Abuse in Consumer Complaints
Bhattacharya, Arkaprabha
Lee, Kevin
Ravi, Vineeth
Staddon, Jessica
Bellini, Rosanna
Computers and Society
Cryptography and Security
Human-Computer Interaction
Digital financial services can introduce new digital-safety risks for users, particularly survivors of intimate partner financial abuse (IPFA). To offer improved support for such users, a comprehensive understanding of their support needs and the barriers they face to redress by financial institutions is essential. Drawing from a dataset of 2.7 million customer complaints, we implement a bespoke workflow that utilizes language-modeling techniques and expert human review to identify complaints describing IPFA. Our mixed-method analysis provides insight into the most common digital financial products involved in these attacks, and the barriers consumers report encountering when doing so. Our contributions are twofold; we offer the first human-labeled dataset for this overlooked harm and provide practical implications for technical practice, research, and design for better supporting and protecting survivors of IPFA.
title Shortchanged: Uncovering and Analyzing Intimate Partner Financial Abuse in Consumer Complaints
topic Computers and Society
Cryptography and Security
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13944