Opt out of privacy or "go home": understanding reluctant privacy behaviours through the FoMO-centric design paradigm

By Fiona Westin, Sonia Chiasson. 2019

26 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This paper explores how the design of online technology influences social factors and manipulates users' online privacy behaviours. In short, users reveal information and participate in online activities even when reluctant due to the influence of dark patterns. We propose FoMO-Centric Design as a paradigm for explaining how dark pattern-infused design may lead users to reluctantly behave in a less secure or privacy-preserving way than their attitudes reflect. We review the literature for evidence pointing to the existence of such design and for potential explanations for how it works. We then discuss the implications, present a list of preliminary recommendations, and offer an agenda for the research community based on our findings.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Privacy & Security, Human-Computer Interaction

How researchers see this paper

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. Irene Solaiman
2. Marie-Therese Png
3. Zeerak Talat
4. Yacine Jernite
5. Alexandra Sasha Luccioni
6. Su Lin Blodgett
7. Margaret Mitchell

In Privacy & Security

1. Irene Solaiman

In Human-Computer Interaction

1. Marie-Therese Png
2. Yacine Jernite
3. Su Lin Blodgett
4. Margaret Mitchell
5. Sara Hooker

Citations in the corpus

• Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society (2023, background): “Privacy options for users should ease accessibility [263], such as standardized form factors when users visit a website requesting privacy permissions.”