Regulating access to adult content (with privacy preservation)

Karen Renaud; Joseph Maguire

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702456

Regulating access to adult content (with privacy preservation)

Karen Renaud, Joseph Maguire

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Abstract

In the physical world we have well-established mechanisms for keeping children out of adult-only areas. In the virtual world this is generally replaced by self declaration. Some service providers resort to using heavyweight identification mechanisms, judging adulthood as a side effect thereof. Collection of identification data arguably constitutes an unwarranted privacy invasion in this context, if carried out merely to perform adulthood estimation. This paper presents a mechanism that exploits the adult's more extensive exposure to public media, relying on the likelihood that they will be able to recall details if cued by a carefully chosen picture. We conducted an online study to gauge the viability of this scheme. With our prototype we were able to predict that the user was a child 99% of the time. Unfortunately the scheme also misclassified too many adults. We discuss our results and suggest directions for future research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	4019-4028
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450331456
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702456
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: "Crossings": crossing borders, crossing boundaries, crossing disciplines, crossing people and technology, crossing past and future, crossing physical and digital, crossing art and science, … crossing you and me - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015 Conference number: 33rd http://chi2015.acm.org/

Conference

Conference	33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/15 → 23/04/15
Internet address	http://chi2015.acm.org/

Keywords

Children
Protection
Access

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Renaud, K & Maguire, J 2015, Regulating access to adult content (with privacy preservation). in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 4019-4028, 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 18/04/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702456

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Regulating access to adult content (with privacy preservation)

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