Shortchanged: Uncovering and Analyzing Intimate Partner Financial Abuse in Consumer Complaints

Arkaprabha Bhattacharya, Kevin Lee, Vineeth Ravi, Jessica Staddon, Rosanna Bellini

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    Abstract

    Digital financial services can introduce new digital-safety risks for users, particularly survivors of intimate partner financial abuse (IPFA). To offer improved support for such users, a comprehensive understanding of their support needs and the barriers they face to redress by financial institutions is essential. Drawing from a dataset of 2.7 million customer complaints, we implement a bespoke work-flow that utilizes language-modeling techniques and expert human review to identify complaints describing IPFA. Our mixed-method analysis provides insight into the most common digital financial products involved in these attacks, and the barriers consumers report encountering when doing so. Our contributions are twofold; we offer the first human-labeled dataset for this overlooked harm and provide practical implications for technical practice, research, and design for better supporting and protecting survivors of IPFA.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Title of host publicationCHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
    ISBN (Electronic)9798400703300
    DOIs
    StatePublished - May 11 2024
    Event2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024 - Hybrid, Honolulu, United States
    Duration: May 11 2024May 16 2024

    Publication series

    NameConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

    Conference

    Conference2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityHybrid, Honolulu
    Period5/11/245/16/24

    Keywords

    • financial abuse
    • intimate partner violence
    • technology-enabled abuse

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Software
    • Human-Computer Interaction
    • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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