A Preliminary Study on Evaluating Cumulative Revelations in Online Personal Data: Introducing a persona-based cyber safety tool for awareness of online risks and harms

Emma Nicol; Leif Azzopardi; Wendy Moncur; Jo Briggs; Callum Nash; Melissa Duheric; Burkhard Schafer

A Preliminary Study on Evaluating Cumulative Revelations in Online Personal Data: Introducing a persona-based cyber safety tool for awareness of online risks and harms

Emma Nicol^*, Leif Azzopardi, Wendy Moncur, Jo Briggs, Callum Nash, Melissa Duheric, Burkhard Schafer

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Small pieces of personal information shared online that, on their own, seem innocuous, can, when combined, pose significant and unanticipated risks to security and reputation. These are cumulative revelations. Our persona-based digital cyber safety tool explores how well people can make such connections between items and evaluates their awareness of online risks and harms. In a study conducted on Prolific (n=200) using two scenarios (Identify Theft, Online Reputation) participants’ ability to identify risky posts and piece together revelations varied considerably across the population. Using the tool, a majority reported increased awareness and understanding of risks posed by online behaviour. Using such scenarios, we are learning about how people understand cumulative risks online, while assisting them with learning how to better identify risks posed by digital traces and how to be safer online. Future work will explore the tool’s application in different employment domains.

Original language	English
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - 19 Jul 2022
Event	Behavioural and Social Sciences in Security: BASS22 - Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom Duration: 19 Jul 2022 → 21 Jul 2022 https://crestresearch.ac.uk/bass22/

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Conference	Behavioural and Social Sciences in Security
Abbreviated title	BASS22
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Lancaster
Period	19/07/22 → 21/07/22
Internet address	https://crestresearch.ac.uk/bass22/

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Are Taylor's Posts Risky? Evaluating Cumulative Revelations in Online Personal Data: A persona-based tool for evaluating awareness of online risks and harms
Azzopardi, L., Briggs, J., Duheric, M., Nash, C., Nicol, E., Moncur, W. & Schafer, B., 6 Jul 2022, SIGIR '22: Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York, US: ACM, p. 3295-3299 5 p.
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Making sense of Trifles: Data Narratives and Cumulative Data Disclosure
Nash, C., Carey, D., Nicol, E., Htait, A., Schafer, B., Briggs, J., Moncur, W. & Azzopardi, L., 24 Feb 2022, In: Jusletter IT. 24, 1, p. 63-71 9 p.
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Revealing Cumulative Risks in Online Personal Information: A Data Narrative Study
Nicol, E., Briggs, J., Moncur, W., Htait, A., Carey, D., Azzopardi, L. & Schafer, B., 7 Nov 2022, In: Proceedings of the ACM: Human Computer Interaction. 6, CSCW2, p. 1-25 25 p., 323.
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Cumulative Revelations of Personal Data
Briggs, J. (PI)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/09/18 → 31/08/21
Project: Research

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Nicol, E., Azzopardi, L., Moncur, W., Briggs, J., Nash, C., Duheric, M., & Schafer, B. (2022). A Preliminary Study on Evaluating Cumulative Revelations in Online Personal Data: Introducing a persona-based cyber safety tool for awareness of online risks and harms. Poster session presented at Behavioural and Social Sciences in Security, Lancaster, United Kingdom. https://crestresearch.ac.uk/bass22/programme/posters/

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A Preliminary Study on Evaluating Cumulative Revelations in Online Personal Data: Introducing a persona-based cyber safety tool for awareness of online risks and harms

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Are Taylor's Posts Risky? Evaluating Cumulative Revelations in Online Personal Data: A persona-based tool for evaluating awareness of online risks and harms

Making sense of Trifles: Data Narratives and Cumulative Data Disclosure

Revealing Cumulative Risks in Online Personal Information: A Data Narrative Study

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