TY - GEN
T1 - How public is my private life? Privacy in online dating
AU - Cobb, Camille
AU - Kohno, Tadayoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Alexis Hiniker, Karl Koscher, Kiron Lebeck, Adam Lerner, Shrirang Mare, Peter Ney, Lucy Simko, Anna Korn-feld Simpson, Paul Vines, and Doug Woos for feedback on earlier drafts. This work was supported in part by the UW Tech Policy Lab, an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and the Short-Dooley Professorship.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2).
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Online dating services let users expand their dating pool beyond their social network and specify important characteristics of potential partners. To assess compatibility, users share personal information — e.g., identifying details or sensitive opinions about sexual preferences or worldviews — in profiles or in one-on-one communication. Thus, participating in online dating poses inherent privacy risks. How people reason about these privacy risks in modern online dating ecosystems has not been extensively studied. We present the results of a survey we designed to examine privacy-related risks, practices, and expectations of people who use or have used online dating, then delve deeper using semi-structured interviews. We additionally analyzed 400 Tinder profiles to explore how these issues manifest in practice. Our results reveal tensions between privacy and competing user values and goals, and we demonstrate how these results can inform future designs.
AB - Online dating services let users expand their dating pool beyond their social network and specify important characteristics of potential partners. To assess compatibility, users share personal information — e.g., identifying details or sensitive opinions about sexual preferences or worldviews — in profiles or in one-on-one communication. Thus, participating in online dating poses inherent privacy risks. How people reason about these privacy risks in modern online dating ecosystems has not been extensively studied. We present the results of a survey we designed to examine privacy-related risks, practices, and expectations of people who use or have used online dating, then delve deeper using semi-structured interviews. We additionally analyzed 400 Tinder profiles to explore how these issues manifest in practice. Our results reveal tensions between privacy and competing user values and goals, and we demonstrate how these results can inform future designs.
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U2 - 10.1145/3038912.3052592
DO - 10.1145/3038912.3052592
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85044625547
SN - 9781450349130
T3 - 26th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2017
SP - 1231
EP - 1240
BT - 26th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2017
PB - International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee
T2 - 26th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2017
Y2 - 3 April 2017 through 7 April 2017
ER -