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What Can Fitness Apps Teach Us About Group Privacy?

What Can Fitness Apps Teach Us About Group Privacy?

Miriam J. Metzger, Jennifer Jiyoung Suh, Scott Reid, Amr El Abbadi
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781799889540|ISBN10: 1799889548|EISBN13: 9781799889557
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8954-0.ch104
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Metzger, Miriam J., et al. "What Can Fitness Apps Teach Us About Group Privacy?." Research Anthology on Privatizing and Securing Data, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 2135-2157. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8954-0.ch104

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Metzger, M. J., Suh, J. J., Reid, S., & El Abbadi, A. (2021). What Can Fitness Apps Teach Us About Group Privacy?. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Research Anthology on Privatizing and Securing Data (pp. 2135-2157). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8954-0.ch104

Chicago

Metzger, Miriam J., et al. "What Can Fitness Apps Teach Us About Group Privacy?." In Research Anthology on Privatizing and Securing Data, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 2135-2157. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8954-0.ch104

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Abstract

This chapter begins with a case study of Strava, a fitness app that inadvertently exposed sensitive military information even while protecting individual users' information privacy. The case study is analyzed as an example of how recent advances in algorithmic group inference technologies threaten privacy, both for individuals and for groups. It then argues that while individual privacy from big data analytics is well understood, group privacy is not. Results of an experiment to better understand group privacy are presented. Findings show that group and individual privacy are psychologically distinct and uniquely affect people's evaluations, use, and tolerance for a fictitious fitness app. The chapter concludes with a discussion of group-inference technologies ethics and offers recommendations for fitness app designers.

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