Understanding online harms and safety of vulnerable groups going through serious life transitions

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Morrow, Diane and Gibson, Ryan and Moncur, Wendy (2023) Understanding online harms and safety of vulnerable groups going through serious life transitions. In: Privacy and Security for Everyone, Anytime, Anywhere, 2023-07-30 - 2023-07-30, Online.

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Abstract

Life transitions are times of particular importance in terms of online information sharing and support seeking behaviours. At a time in life when audiences and publics may need to be considered, there is a potential for regretful disclosure and harm. Emotions play a central part in this, during a disruptive time, and it can be difficult to make informed choices. At present, online technologies do not offer passive security and person-centred approaches for diverse populations. Previous research for vulnerable groups is limited for certain populations in usable privacy for life transitions. Designing adaptive Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) can offer individuals a level of personalised support to protect them online when transitioning. We took a codesign workshop approach to build on initial survey findings, to understand online lived experiences of four vulnerable populations: LGBT+; Leaving the military; romantic relationship breakdown; and living with cancer. We identified initial themes from our survey relating to (1) A new normal; (2) Continuum of transitions; (3) Types of information sharing; (4) Impact of information sharing; and (5) Moderating privacy and control. These themes have been applied iteratively to develop our co-design workshops. This study aims to deeper understand related factors and impacts experienced from going through a life transition and online safety. This abstract reports the position of creative design methods which bring a novel approach to understanding vulnerable populations during life transitions to best develop appropriate and meaningful PETs.

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Morrow, Diane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5078-0549, Gibson, Ryan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0425-1486 and Moncur, Wendy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1485-4723;
  • Item type:Conference or Workshop Item(Paper)
    ID code:92005
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    30 July 2023
    Published
    8 June 2023
    Accepted
    Subjects:?? QA76-890 ??
    Department:Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:05 Feb 2025 15:51
    Last modified:20 Feb 2025 02:27
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/92005
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