Sok: Safer digital-safety research involving at-risk users

R Bellini, E Tseng, N Warford, A Daffalla… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research involving at-risk users—that is, users who are more likely to experience a digital
attack or to be disproportionately affected when harm from such an attack occurs—can pose …

“I Did Watch 'The Handmaid's Tale'”: Threat Modeling Privacy Post-roe in the United States

N Mcdonald, N Andalibi - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Now that the protections of Roe v. Wade are no longer available throughout the United
States, the free flow of personal data can be used by legal authorities to provide evidence of …

Risk, resilience and reward: Impacts of shifting to digital sex work

V Hamilton, H Barakat, EM Redmiles - … of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Workers from a variety of industries rapidly shifted to remote work at the onset of the COVID-
19 pandemic. While existing work has examined the impact of this shift on office workers …

Ethical practices for security research with at-risk populations

R Bhalerao, V Hamilton, A McDonald… - 2022 IEEE European …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A growing body of security and privacy research focuses on at-risk populations-those who
are marginalized, stigmatized, and/or criminalized-and who may face significant harm from …

Safer digital intimacy for sex workers and beyond: A technical research agenda

V Hamilton, G Kaptchuk, A McDonald… - IEEE Security & …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital intimacy, engaged in by sex workers, clients, and others who share intimate content
recreationally, has significant security and privacy risks, exacerbated by stigma. We present …

Abusive Partner Perspectives on Technology Abuse: Implications for Community-based Violence Prevention

RF Bellini - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Inaccurate assumptions about people who abuse technology can inhibit effective socio-
technical interventions for at-risk populations, including IPV survivors. Our study aims to …

Enabling Developers, Protecting Users: Investigating Harassment and Safety in VR

A Sabir, A Das - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05499, 2024 - arxiv.org
Virtual Reality (VR) has witnessed a rising issue of harassment, prompting the integration of
safety controls like muting and blocking in VR applications. However, the lack of …

[PDF][PDF] Enabling Developers, Protecting Users: Investigating Harassment and Safety in VR

SB Abhinaya, A Sabir, A Das - arXiv e-prints, 2024 - usenix.org
Virtual Reality (VR) has witnessed a rising issue of harassment, prompting the integration of
safety controls like muting and blocking in VR applications. However, the lack of …

[PDF][PDF] Safe digital intimacy: A research agenda

People engage in sexual intimacy online in a variety of ways. For example, they may send
intimate images to each other (sext) or they may work in or consume content produced by …