C4PS-Helping Facebookers Manage Their Privacy SettingsShow others and affiliations
2012 (English)In: SOCIAL INFORMATICS, SOCINFO 2012, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2012, p. 188-201Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
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Abstract [en]
The ever increasing popularity of Online Social Networks has left a wealth of personal data on the web, accessible for broad and automatic retrieval. Protection from undesired recipients and harvesting by crawlers is implemented by access control, manually configured by the user in his privacy settings. Privacy unfriendly default settings and the user unfriendly privacy setting interfaces cause an unnoticed over-sharing. We propose C4PS - Colors for Privacy Settings, a concept for future privacy setting interfaces. We developed a mockup for privacy settings in Facebook as a proof of concept, applying color coding for different privacy visibilities, providing easy access to the privacy settings, and generally following common, well known practices. We evaluated this mockup in a lab study and show in the results that the new approach increases the usability significantly. Based on the results we provide a Firefox plug-in implementing C4PS for the new Facebook interface.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2012. p. 188-201
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN 0302-9743 ; 7710
National Category
Computer Sciences
Research subject
Computer Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-44907ISI: 000320472700015ISBN: 978-3-642-35385-7 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-44907DiVA, id: diva2:952889
Conference
4th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo), DEC 05-07, 2012, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
2016-08-162016-08-152018-06-04Bibliographically approved