Re-engineering Digital Privacy for Domestic Violence Survivors
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In recent decades, technology has increasingly been used as a tool for domestic violence perpetrators to harass, stalk, and surveil victims. Subsequently, survivors of domestic violence face critical digital privacy needs that are inadequately addressed by modern digital privacy practices and tools. Drawing from interviews with survivors and domain experts, this paper first presents a graphical framework to model digital privacy attacks in domestic violence. It then outlines five key digital privacy needs of domestic violence survivors— awareness, coverage, convenience, maintenance, and alerts. Next, it introduces the Berrier system, a single control tower for cross-platform privacy settings designed specifically for survivors’ privacy needs. Finally, the paper presents a 10-participant user study for Berrier, which finds that using Berrier sharply increases the average total accuracy (+10.0%), speed (+39.5%), and perceived ease (+51.0%) of changing one’s online privacy settings. These findings present a crucial step forward in re-engineering digital privacy for domestic violence survivors.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date modified | December 5, 2022 |
| Publication date | December 16, 2021 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Park, Michelle |
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Subjects
| Subject | digital privacy |
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| Subject | domestic violence |
| Subject | cybersecurity |
| Subject | privacy |
| Subject | human-computer interaction |
| Subject | design thinking |
| Subject | computer science |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Park, M. (2021). Re-engineering Digital Privacy for Domestic Violence Survivors. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/dd647df9696
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Undergraduate Theses, School of Engineering
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