Awareness, Adoption, and Misconceptions of Web Privacy Tools

Awareness, Adoption, and Misconceptions of Web Privacy Tools

Privacy and security tools can help users protect themselves online. Unfortunately, people are often unaware of such tools, and have potentially harmful misconceptions about the protections provided by the tools they know about. Effectively encouraging the adoption of privacy tools requires insights...

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Main Authors: Story Peter, Smullen Daniel, Yao Yaxing, Acquisti Alessandro, Cranor Lorrie Faith, Sadeh Norman, Schaub Florian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2021-07-01
Series:Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Subjects:
privacy
technology adoption
mental models
private browsing
vpn
tor
ad blocking
antivirus
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2021-0049

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