Perception of Privacy Tools for Social Media: A Qualitative Analysis Among Japanese

Vanessa Bracamonte, Yohko Orito, Yasunori Fukuta, Kiyoshi Murata, Takamasa Isohara

2024

Abstract

Social media platforms are used worldwide, and privacy risks are encountered by all users regardless of country. Therefore, privacy-enhancing tools that automatically detect relevant information in a users’ post could be useful globally, but perception of such tools has not been widely investigated. To address this issue, we conducted a qualitative analysis of perception in Japan, where there is high social media use, to understand what are users’ opinions and privacy concerns towards this type of privacy tools. We find that Japanese users’ perception of privacy tool appears to be influenced by an overall sense of distrust towards apps and developers and by general privacy concerns. On the other hand, specific privacy concerns due to the nature of the privacy tool are less frequent, and there were not marked differences in perception when compared to concerns towards a non-privacy tool. The findings suggest that the acceptance of privacy tools in Japan would be influenced by the general sense of anxiety for privacy.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bracamonte V., Orito Y., Fukuta Y., Murata K. and Isohara T. (2024). Perception of Privacy Tools for Social Media: A Qualitative Analysis Among Japanese. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT; ISBN 978-989-758-709-2, SciTePress, pages 151-162. DOI: 10.5220/0012762000003767

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt24,
author={Vanessa Bracamonte and Yohko Orito and Yasunori Fukuta and Kiyoshi Murata and Takamasa Isohara},
title={Perception of Privacy Tools for Social Media: A Qualitative Analysis Among Japanese},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT},
year={2024},
pages={151-162},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012762000003767},
isbn={978-989-758-709-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT
TI - Perception of Privacy Tools for Social Media: A Qualitative Analysis Among Japanese
SN - 978-989-758-709-2
AU - Bracamonte V.
AU - Orito Y.
AU - Fukuta Y.
AU - Murata K.
AU - Isohara T.
PY - 2024
SP - 151
EP - 162
DO - 10.5220/0012762000003767
PB - SciTePress