Paper Info
Title
Empirical models of privacy in location sharing
Abstract
The rapid adoption of location tracking and mobile social networking technologies raises significant privacy challenges. Today our understanding of people's location sharing privacy preferences remains very limited, including how these preferences are impacted by the type of location tracking device or the nature of the locations visited. To address this gap, we deployed Locaccino, a mobile location sharing system, in a four week long field study, where we examined the behavior of study participants (n=28) who shared their location with their acquaintances (n=373.) Our results show that users appear more comfortable sharing their presence at locations visited by a large and diverse set of people. Our study also indicates that people who visit a wider number of places tend to also be the subject of a greater number of requests for their locations. Over time these same people tend to also evolve more sophisticated privacy preferences, reflected by an increase in time- and location-based restrictions. We conclude by discussing the implications our findings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1864349.1864364
UbiComp
Keywords
Field
DocType
study participant,sophisticated privacy preference,mobile social networking technology,location sharing privacy preference,mobile location sharing system,location tracking,greater number,week long field study,significant privacy challenge,empirical model,location tracking device,privacy,design,measurement,field study,social network
Empirical modelling,Internet privacy,World Wide Web,Mobile location,Social network,Computer science,Location sharing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
75
2.63
18
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eran Toch168244.85
Justin Cranshaw284444.50
Paul Hankes Drielsma31728.47
Janice Y. Tsai432916.39
Patrick Gage Kelley5167979.74
James Springfield6752.63
Lorrie Faith Cranor76767515.80
Jason Hong86706518.75
Norman M. Sadeh93472253.13