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"Am I Private and If So, how Many?" -- Using Risk Communication Formats for Making Differential Privacy Understandable

"Am I Private and If So, how Many?"

"Am I Private and If So, how Many?"
Image Credit: Peter Sörries

Franzen, Daniel; Nunez von Voigt, Saskia; Sörries, Peter; Tschorsch, Florian; Müller-Birn, Claudia – 2022

Mobility data is essential for cities and communities to identify areas for necessary improvement. Data collected by mobility providers already contains all the information necessary, but privacy of the individuals needs to be preserved. Differential privacy (DP) defines a mathematical property which guarantees that certain limits of privacy are preserved while sharing such data, but its functionality and privacy protection are difficult to explain to laypeople. In this paper, we adapt risk communication formats in conjunction with a model for the privacy risks of DP. The result are privacy notifications which explain the risk to an individual's privacy when using DP, rather than DP's functionality. We evaluate these novel privacy communication formats in a crowdsourced study. We find that they perform similarly to the best performing DP communications used currently in terms of objective understanding, but did not make our participants as confident in their understanding. We also discovered an influence, similar to the Dunning-Kruger effect, of the statistical numeracy on the effectiveness of some of our privacy communication formats and the DP communication format used currently. These results generate hypotheses in multiple directions, for example, toward the use of risk visualization to improve the understandability of our formats or toward adaptive user interfaces which tailor the risk communication to the characteristics of the reader.

Title
"Am I Private and If So, how Many?" -- Using Risk Communication Formats for Making Differential Privacy Understandable
Author
Franzen, Daniel; Nunez von Voigt, Saskia; Sörries, Peter; Tschorsch, Florian; Müller-Birn, Claudia
Publisher
arXiv.org
Date
2022
Identifier
10.48550/ARXIV.2204.04061
Source(s)
Language
eng
Type
Text
BibTeX Code
@misc{2022_franzen_am,
author = {Franzen, Daniel and von Voigt, Saskia Nuñez and Sörries, Peter and Tschorsch, Florian and Müller-Birn, Claudia},
title = {"Am I Private and If So, how Many?" -- Using Risk Communication Formats for Making Differential Privacy Understandable},
publisher = {arXiv},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2204.04061},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04061},
keywords = {freemove},
copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International}
}