In the user we trust: Unrealistic expectations of Facebook’s privacy mechanisms

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapportKonferencebidrag i proceedingsForskningfagfællebedømt

Facebook has created a complex system of controls to manage disclosure in an effort to help users address privacy concerns. Do these controls work in practice? What about controls for disclosure to Facebook itself? We explore user relationships with Facebook and its privacy mechanisms using scenario building and explored their reactions. We then confronted them with their actual practices by using Facebook’s apps permissions screen. While the majority of respondents felt responsible for their data disclosure, they failed to live up to their own expectations. We argue that the complexity of privacy controls places unrealistic responsibilities on the users, while masking the way Facebook itself collects user data. There is an urgent need to establish clear and explicit basic privacy norms for user relationships with social media companies.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2018
Antal sider12
ForlagAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Publikationsdato18 jul. 2018
Sider138-149
ISBN (Trykt)9781450363341
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 18 jul. 2018
Eksternt udgivetJa
Begivenhed9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2018 - Copenhagen, Danmark
Varighed: 18 jul. 201820 jul. 2018

Konference

Konference9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2018
LandDanmark
ByCopenhagen
Periode18/07/201820/07/2018
NavnACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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