TY - JOUR
T1 - Nudges for privacy and security
T2 - Understanding and assisting users’ choices online
AU - Acquisti, Alessandro
AU - Adjerid, Idris
AU - Balebako, Rebecca
AU - Brandimarte, Laura
AU - Cranor, Lorrie Faith
AU - Komanduri, Saranga
AU - Leon, Pedro Giovanni
AU - Sadeh, Norman
AU - Schaub, Florian
AU - Sleeper, Manya
AU - Wang, Yang
AU - Wilson, Shomir
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been supported by the National Science Foundation under grant CNS-1012763 (Nudging Users Towards Privacy), as well as grants CNS-0627513 and CNS-0905562, and by a Google Focused Research Award. This research has also been supported by CMU CyLab under grants DAAD19-02-1-0389 and W911NF-09-1-0273 from the Army Research Office, the IWT SBO SPION Project, Nokia, France Telecom, and the CMU/Portugal Information and Communication Technologies Institute
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/8
Y1 - 2017/8
N2 - Advancements in information technology often task users with complex and consequential privacy and security decisions. A growing body of research has investigated individuals’ choices in the presence of privacy and information security tradeoffs, the decision-making hurdles affecting those choices, and ways to mitigate such hurdles. This article provides a multi-disciplinary assessment of the literature pertaining to privacy and security decision making. It focuses on research on assisting individuals’ privacy and security choices with soft paternalistic interventions that nudge users toward more beneficial choices. The article discusses potential benefits of those interventions, highlights their shortcomings, and identifies key ethical, design, and research challenges.
AB - Advancements in information technology often task users with complex and consequential privacy and security decisions. A growing body of research has investigated individuals’ choices in the presence of privacy and information security tradeoffs, the decision-making hurdles affecting those choices, and ways to mitigate such hurdles. This article provides a multi-disciplinary assessment of the literature pertaining to privacy and security decision making. It focuses on research on assisting individuals’ privacy and security choices with soft paternalistic interventions that nudge users toward more beneficial choices. The article discusses potential benefits of those interventions, highlights their shortcomings, and identifies key ethical, design, and research challenges.
KW - Behavioral economics
KW - Nudge
KW - Privacy
KW - Security
KW - Soft paternalism
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U2 - 10.1145/3054926
DO - 10.1145/3054926
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85027521672
SN - 0360-0300
VL - 50
JO - ACM Computing Surveys
JF - ACM Computing Surveys
IS - 3
M1 - 44
ER -