TY - GEN
T1 - Online privacy in public places
T2 - 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2019
AU - Molina, Maria D.
AU - Shyam Sundar, S.
AU - Gambino, Andrew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
PY - 2019/5/2
Y1 - 2019/5/2
N2 - Do we disclose more information online when we access Wi-Fi from home compared to the University, or an Airbnb rental, or a coffee shop? Does it matter if we are shown terms and conditions (T&C) before getting online? Will signing into a virtual private network (VPN) affect our disclosure? We conducted an experiment (N = 276) to find out. Our results suggest that while VPN promotes disclosure of personal information and unethical behaviors in an Airbnb network, the provision of T&C inhibits this disclosure. Conversely, in a University network, provision of terms and conditions encourages disclosure of unethical behavior, but the presence of VPN cue inhibits it. Further, a user's belief in the publicness heuristic (public networks are risky) dictate how much users reveal in various locations based on their perceptions of relative security of accessing Wi-Fi from those locations.
AB - Do we disclose more information online when we access Wi-Fi from home compared to the University, or an Airbnb rental, or a coffee shop? Does it matter if we are shown terms and conditions (T&C) before getting online? Will signing into a virtual private network (VPN) affect our disclosure? We conducted an experiment (N = 276) to find out. Our results suggest that while VPN promotes disclosure of personal information and unethical behaviors in an Airbnb network, the provision of T&C inhibits this disclosure. Conversely, in a University network, provision of terms and conditions encourages disclosure of unethical behavior, but the presence of VPN cue inhibits it. Further, a user's belief in the publicness heuristic (public networks are risky) dictate how much users reveal in various locations based on their perceptions of relative security of accessing Wi-Fi from those locations.
KW - Location
KW - Privacy
KW - Publicness Heuristic
KW - Terms and conditions
KW - VPN
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85067289913
U2 - 10.1145/3290607.3312932
DO - 10.1145/3290607.3312932
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85067289913
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 4 May 2019 through 9 May 2019
ER -