Beadle, Kyle;
Vasek, Marie;
(2023)
Peer Surveillance in Online Communities.
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Proceedings of the 2023 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security.
UNESIX: Anaheim, CA, USA.
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Abstract
Online communities are not safe spaces for user privacy. Even though existing research focuses on creating and improving various content moderation strategies and privacy preserving technologies, platforms hosting online communities support features allowing users to surveil one another–leading to harassment, personal data breaches, and offline harm. To tackle this problem, we introduce a new, work-in-progress framework for analyzing data privacy within vulnerable, identity-based online communities. Where current SOUPS papers study surveillance and longitudinal user data as two distinct challenges to user privacy, more work needs to be done in exploring the sites where surveillance and historical user data assemble. By synthesizing over 40 years of developments in the analysis of surveillance, we derive properties of online communities that enable the abuse of user data by fellow community members and suggest key steps to improving security for vulnerable users. Deploying this new framework on new and existing platforms will ensure that online communities are privacy-conscious and designed more inclusively.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Peer Surveillance in Online Communities |
| Event: | 2023 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security - 7th Workshop on Inclusive Privacy and Security |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198713 |
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