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Re: Question over studies of user choice re privacy/security and retention

From: Ilaria Liccardi <ilaria@csail.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:15:05 -0400
Cc: public-privacy@w3.org
Message-Id: <FB1F6E1F-74A8-49F8-B739-9E315119B178@csail.mit.edu>
To: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org>
Harry,
We have done studies related to users's choices for smartphone apps. We found that people change their mind once they understand the kind of data that is accessed [1], [2].

You might also want to check some of Adrienne Porter Felt, Lorrie Cranor (nudges), Acquisti and Jennifer Goldbeck' s research since they are also relevant. 

I hope it helps.

Ilaria


[1] Shih F., Liccardi I., Weitzenr D.J., Privacy Tipping Points in Smartphones Privacy Preferences, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2015 (CHI) pp. 807-816.
[2] Liccardi I., Pato J., Abelson H., Weitzner D. J., de Roure D., No technical understanding required: Helping users make informed choices about access to their personal data, ACM 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous), pp. 140-150



On Sep 26, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:

> This seems like a simple question but it has a real effect on Web
> standards.
> 
> Do we have any good studies that show how many users *actually* drop off
> when presented with a choice?
> 
> By "choice" I mean anything from a "Do you accept cookies" in the
> European E-cookie directive to the "Would you like to share your camera
> and microphone" with WebRTC In particular,
> 
> - Does the drop off rate depend on the number of choices? For example,
> having three choices may cause larger drop off than two.
> 
> - Does the drop off rate change if there are multiple dialogues? For
> example, two sets of two choices?
> 
> - Does this hold up uniformly regardless of context, i.e. security
> properties such as TLS as opposed to geolocation?
> 
> - Do we have any idea what kind of text or visual cues users respond to
> when given choices?
> 
> I am of course still interested in EME [1], so having some idea of how
> this plays out in terms of academic studies would be great. I hear lots
> of rumors, but I would prefer to read actual studies.
> 
>  cheers,
> 
>      harry
> 
> [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2016Aug/0049.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
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