Skip to main content
USENIX
  • Conferences
  • Students
Sign in
  • Home
  • Attend
    • Registration Information
    • Registration Discounts
    • Venue, Hotel, and Travel
    • Students and Grants
  • Program
    • At a Glance
    • Symposium Program
    • 2nd Workshop on Security Information Workers
    • Who Are You?! Adventures in Authentication
    • Workshop on Privacy Indicators
    • Workshop on Security Fatigue
    • Workshop on the Future of Privacy Notices and Indicators: Will Drones Deliver My Privacy Policy?
  • Activities
    • Poster Session
    • Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions
  • Sponsorship
  • Participate
    • Instructions for Authors and Speakers
    • Call for Nominations
    • Call for Papers
    • Call for Posters and Proposals
      • Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Security Information Workers
      • Call for Papers: Who are you?! Adventures in Authentication
      • Call for Papers: Workshop on Privacy Indicators
      • Call for Papers: Workshop on Security Fatigue
      • Workshop: Will Drones Deliver My Privacy Policy?
  • About
    • Organizers
    • Past Symposia

sponsors

Gold Sponsor
Silver Sponsor
Silver Sponsor
Bronze Sponsor
Media Sponsor
Media Sponsor
Industry Partner
  • Home
  • Attend
  • Program
  • Activities
  • Sponsorship
  • Participate
  • About

connect with us


  •  Twitter
  •  Facebook
  •  LinkedIn
  •  Google+
  •  YouTube

twitter

Tweets by @usenix

usenix conference policies

  • Event Code of Conduct
  • Conference Network Policy
  • Statement on Environmental Responsibility Policy

You are here

Home ยป Influence of Privacy Attitude and Privacy Cue Framing on Android App Choices
Tweet

connect with us

Influence of Privacy Attitude and Privacy Cue Framing on Android App Choices

Authors: 

Prashanth Rajivan, Carnegie Mellon University; Jean Camp, Indiana University

Abstract: 

Transmission of personally identifiable information from smartphone apps has become ubiquitous as smartphones themselves. Privacy controls currently provided in the form of permissions warnings falls insufficient especially for communicating risk during app installation. Presenting easy to understand privacy risk icons/cues would help people make low risk app choices. However, the human factor requirements for designing such privacy risk icons are largely unknown. Towards this, we conducted a user experiment with 480 participants who made a series of app choices with/without privacy priming and with/without privacy risk communicating icons. Overall, presenting risk communicating icons along with app benefit icons has a significant effect on user app choices in terms of risk-benefit trade-o ff. We found that one type of privacy icon framing leads to mediocre app choices under particular conditions. We found that priming for privacy would lead to increased concern while choosing apps but may not have an augmenting effect on final app choices when combined with certain type of privacy framing. Based on our findings, we conclude with human factor recommendations for designing privacy risk communicating icons.

Prashanth Rajivan, Carnegie Mellon University

Jean Camp, Indiana University

Open Access Media

USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our events. Papers and proceedings are freely available to everyone once the event begins. Any video, audio, and/or slides that are posted after the event are also free and open to everyone. Support USENIX and our commitment to Open Access.

Rajivan PDF
View the slides
  • Log in or    Register to post comments

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Media Sponsors & Industry Partners

© USENIX

  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us