Andrew Raij - University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
Animikh Ghosh - SETLabs, InfoSys, Bangalore, India
Santosh Kumar - University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Mani Srivastava - University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Proceeding
CHI '11 Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems
Summary
AutoSense is a data collecting system concerning physiological status of humans. It collects inertial data along with cardiac, temperature, skin, and respiration.
Hypothesis
When creating the AutoSense apparatus, it was not known that certain inferences could be made. The researchers proposed that participants can not fully understand the stake in releasing their data unless they had a personal stake in it.
Methods
The first goal of the research was to assess how people regard their data sets, since it includes information about their physiological, behavioral, and psychological states. This was measured by having two primary groups, one that did not have personal stake in the data released, and one that did not.
The second goal was to design the study so that the participants could limit access to their data, or even prevent logging of certain points of data, such as acceleration.
The last goal is to determine how easily a participant can be reidentified using the data sets.
Results
People were less likely to share some parts of their data if they understood that it could be used against them (personal stake). Also there was a considerably larger amount of stress for the S-Post group as well. The data set of exercise was not as much stressed about, but there was still concern about privacy of their exercise preferences.
Discussion
Today we live in a world where the amount of data being shared is enormous. Some people take this as an opportunity to hide everything about themselves, or to embrace it by actively sharing their lives to strangers on the internet. Obviously, when privacy is removed and if there is any incriminating activity, a potential for issues arises. So if privacy was not an option, there is one of two choises: be exposed from "wrong" actions, or to chose not to do those actions knowing that people are watching.
From this, I do not believe that privacy should be an option since it allows unwise actions to be performed.
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