Photo privacy conflicts in social media: A large-scale empirical study

Jose M. Such, Joel Porter, Sören Preibusch, Adam Joinson

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Abstract

Items in social media such as photos may be co-owned by multiple users, i.e., the sharing decisions of the ones who upload them have the potential to harm the privacy of the others. Previous works uncovered coping strategies by co-owners to manage their privacy, but mainly focused on general practices and experiences. We establish an empirical base for the prevalence, context and severity of privacy conflicts over co-owned photos. To this aim, a parallel survey of pre-screened 496 uploaders and 537 co-owners collected occurrences and type of conflicts over co-owned photos, and any actions taken towards resolving them. We uncover nuances and complexities not known before, including co-ownership types, and divergences in the assessment of photo audiences. We also find that an all-or-nothing approach seems to dominate conflict resolution, even when parties actually interact and talk about the conflict. Finally, we derive key insights for designing systems to mitigate these divergences and facilitate consensus.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publicationExplore, Innovate, Inspire
Place of PublicationNew York, USA
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages3821-3832
Number of pages12
Volume2017-May
ISBN (Electronic)9781450346559
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 May 2017
Event2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 - Denver, USA United States
Duration: 6 May 201711 May 2017

Conference

Conference2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017
Country/TerritoryUSA United States
CityDenver
Period6/05/1711/05/17

Funding

We would like to thank the EPSRC for supporting this research under grant EP/M027805/1. We also thank Semo Abi-ola for helping code responses to open-ended questions, and Natalia Criado for her comments on draft versions of this paper. Finally, we thank the anonymous Associate Chairs and reviewers for their very helpful comments.

Keywords

  • Co-ownership
  • Conflicts
  • Online social networks
  • Photo sharing
  • Privacy
  • Social media

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Software

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