Privacy-awareness information for web forums: results from an empirical study
Abstract
While interacting with others on the internet, users share a lot of personal data with a potentially large but "invisible" audience. An important issue is maintaining control over personal data and therefore, in the first place, users need to be aware to whom they are disclosing which data. Based on the cues-filtered-out theory we introduce a new feature to support the privacy-awareness of forum users and tested it with 313 users. The results of our empirical study show that the presentation of privacy-related context cues indeed increases forum users' privacy-awareness. This is an important precondition for users' willingness to modify privacy settings or to use privacy-enhancing technologies.
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Cues-Filtered-Out Theory implies that individuals disclose more personal data in computer-mediated communication settings compared to face-to-face settings due to the absence of social and contextual cues leading to disclosure of information online despite general privacy concerns.
“Cues-Filtered-Out Theory (Sproull andKiesler, 1986, 1991) implies that individuals disclose more personal data in computermediated communication settings compared to face-to-face settings due to the absence of social and contextual cues leading to disclosure of information online despite general privacy concerns (Pötzsch et al., 2010).”
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“Privacy awareness tools should empower users to make well-informed decisions with regard to their information disclosure (Pötzsch et al., 2010).”
Background
- Authors
- Pötzsch, S., Wolkerstorfer, P., & Graf, C.
- Affiliations
- Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
- Center for Usability Research and Engineering (AT)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2010-10-16
- Pages
- 363-372
- OpenAlex
- W1991691282
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 2.80
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Seventh Framework Programme (216483)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- Keywords
- privacy awareness, online forums, contextual cues, personal information disclosure, privacy settings, privacy-enhancing technologies, user privacy control
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