Huichuan Xia, Yun Huang, and Yang Wang, Syracuse University
Prior works in criminology have studied victims' privacy protection in extreme cases such as rape, but little is known about victims' privacy concerns and experiences in less severe incidents. Also, little has studied on privacy issues in crowdsourcing based reporting systems. In this paper, we conducted a case study with LiveSafe which is a popular crowdsourcing based safety reporting system. We reported our initial interview results with several victim students about their privacy concerns and experiences, and then we discussed about how to protect victim privacy as well as some special challenges to achieve it. To the best of our knowledge, this work is pioneering in this research field.
Open Access Media
USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our events. Papers and proceedings are freely available to everyone once the event begins. Any video, audio, and/or slides that are posted after the event are also free and open to everyone. Support USENIX and our commitment to Open Access.
title = {Victim Privacy in Crowdsourcing Based Public Safety Reporting: A Case Study of {LiveSafe}},
booktitle = {Thirteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2017)},
year = {2017},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2017/workshop-program/wips2017/xia},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul
}
