Karen Tang, Jason Hong, and Dan Siewiorek

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

May 2012

We compared two privacy configuration styles for specifying rules for social sharing one’s past locations. Our findings suggest that location-sharing applications which support varying levels of location granularities are associated with sharing rules that are less convoluted, are less likely to be negatively phrased, and can lead to more open sharing. It also results in higher perceived comfort scores, which could be indicative of a false sense of control.

location sharing, privacy, rules, usable privacy and security