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"my sex-related data is more sensitive than my financial data and i want the same level of security and privacy": user risk perceptions and protective actions in female-oriented technologies
Royal Holloway University of London, UK.
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Informatics. Interactive Technologies Institute/LARSyS, Portugal.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7393-3379
2023 (English)In: EuroUSEC '23: Proceedings of the 2023 European Symposium on Usable Security, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023, p. 1-14Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The digitalization of the reproductive body has engaged myriads of cutting-edge technologies in supporting people to know and tackle their intimate health. Generally understood as female technologies (aka female-oriented technologies or ‘FemTech’), these products and systems collect a wide range of intimate data which are processed, transferred, saved and shared with other parties. In this paper, we explore how the “data-hungry" nature of this industry and the lack of proper safeguarding mechanisms, standards, and regulations for vulnerable data can lead to complex harms or faint agentic potential. We adopted mixed methods in exploring users’ understanding of the security and privacy (SP) of these technologies. Our findings show that while users can speculate the range of harms and risks associated with these technologies, they are not equipped and provided with the technological skills to protect themselves against such risks. We discuss a number of approaches, including participatory threat modelling and SP by design, in the context of this work and conclude that such approaches are critical to protect users in these sensitive systems. 

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023. p. 1-14
Keywords [en]
Intimate data, Cybersecurity and privacy, FemTech, Reproductive health
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Other Engineering and Technologies Other Social Sciences Computer and Information Sciences
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Computer Science; human-computer interaction
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-215306DOI: 10.1145/3617072.3617100Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85175401335ISBN: 9798400708145 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-215306DiVA, id: diva2:1805199
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EuroUSEC '23: the 2023 European Symposium on Usable Security, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 16-17, 2023
Available from: 2023-10-16 Created: 2023-10-16 Last updated: 2023-11-10Bibliographically approved

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