Privacy Threats in Intimate Relationships

guest · Jun 6, 2020

Privacy Threats in Intimate Relationships
June 5, 2020
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/06/new_research_pr.html

I just published a new paper with Karen Levy of Cornell: "Privacy Threats in Intimate Relationships."

Abstract: [...] Those closest to us know the answers to our secret questions, have access to our devices, and can exercise coercive power over us. We survey a range of intimate relationships and describe their common features. Based on these features, we explore implications for both technical privacy design and policy, and offer design recommendations for ameliorating intimate privacy risks.
This is an important issue that has gotten much too little attention in the cybersecurity community.
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Research paper: "Privacy threats in intimate relationships"
(PDF - 424 KB): https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/Privacy_Threats_in_Intimate_Relationships.pdf

Though these threats are, by their nature, difficult to definitively quantify, the indicators we have suggest the scope and scale of intimate threats.
In one survey, 31% of participants admitted to snooping through another person’s phone without per-
mission in the past year [2].

Forty-eight percent looked through phone records and text messages, and 16% tracked teens’ locations via their cell phones; half reported knowing the password to their teenager’s email account [3]

In addition to being important on their own, intimate threats can be precursors to more traditional forms of privacy and security threat. Intimate privacy invasions can result in the destruction of
valuable or personal data, like financial records or family photographs. [...]
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