TY - GEN
T1 - Privacy, anonymity, and perceived risk in open collaboration
T2 - 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2017
AU - Forte, Andrea
AU - Andalibi, Nazanin
AU - Greenstadt, Rachel
N1 - Funding Information:
Our thanks to Tor Project and Wikimedia affiliates who helped our recruitment efforts; to Michael Dickard, Roger Dingledine, Tim Gorichanaz, and Susan Wyche for feedback on paper drafts; and to the participants who shared their stories with us. This work was partially supported by National Science Foundation grants #1253302, 1347151, and 1253418.
PY - 2017/2/25
Y1 - 2017/2/25
N2 - This qualitative study examines privacy practices and concerns among contributors to open collaboration projects. We collected interview data from people who use the anonymity network Tor who also contribute to online projects and from Wikipedia editors who are concerned about their privacy to better understand how privacy concerns impact participation in open collaboration projects. We found that risks perceived by contributors to open collaboration projects include threats of surveillance, violence, harassment, opportunity loss, reputation loss, and fear for loved ones. We explain participants' operational and technical strategies for mitigating these risks and how these strategies affect their contributions. Finally, we discuss chilling effects associated with privacy loss, the need for open collaboration projects to go beyond attracting and educating participants to consider their privacy, and some of the social and technical approaches that could be explored to mitigate risk at a project or community level.
AB - This qualitative study examines privacy practices and concerns among contributors to open collaboration projects. We collected interview data from people who use the anonymity network Tor who also contribute to online projects and from Wikipedia editors who are concerned about their privacy to better understand how privacy concerns impact participation in open collaboration projects. We found that risks perceived by contributors to open collaboration projects include threats of surveillance, violence, harassment, opportunity loss, reputation loss, and fear for loved ones. We explain participants' operational and technical strategies for mitigating these risks and how these strategies affect their contributions. Finally, we discuss chilling effects associated with privacy loss, the need for open collaboration projects to go beyond attracting and educating participants to consider their privacy, and some of the social and technical approaches that could be explored to mitigate risk at a project or community level.
KW - Identity
KW - Privacy
KW - Risk
KW - Tor
KW - Wikipedia
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U2 - 10.1145/2998181.2998273
DO - 10.1145/2998181.2998273
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85014783002
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 1800
EP - 1811
BT - CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 25 February 2017 through 1 March 2017
ER -