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most citedSkip, Skip, Skip, Accept!!!: A Study on the Usability of Smartphone Manufacturer Provided Default Features and User Privacy

27 citations · 58 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CR2026

Security and Privacy in Agentic AI: Grand Challenges and Future Directions

Adam Jenkins, Agnieszka Kitkowska, Caterina Maidhof +22

We present key challenges and future research directions in the security and privacy of agentic AI, based on a horizon-scanning exercise that brought together thirty leading intern…

cs.CR2026

Children Are Not the Enemy: Child-Fit Security as an Alternative to Bans and Surveillance

Kopo M. Ramokapane, Rui Huan, Zaina Dkaidek +1

Digital technologies are now central to children's learning, play, communication, identity formation, and social participation. Yet dominant approaches to children's online safety…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Assessing Effectiveness of Cyber Essentials Technical Controls

Priyanka Badva, Partha Das Chowdhury, Kopo M. Ramokapane +2

Cyber Essentials (CE) comprise a set of controls designed to protect organisations, irrespective of their size, against cyber attacks. The controls are firewalls, secure configurat…

cs.HC2023★ 1 cited

Voice App Developer Experiences with Alexa and Google Assistant: Juggling Risks, Liability, and Security

William Seymour, Noura Abdi, Kopo M. Ramokapane +3

Voice applications (voice apps) are a key element in Voice Assistant ecosystems such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, as they provide assistants with a wide range of capabilit…

cs.HC2023★ 27 cited

Skip, Skip, Skip, Accept!!!: A Study on the Usability of Smartphone Manufacturer Provided Default Features and User Privacy

Kopo M. Ramokapane, Anthony C. Mazeli, Awais Rashid

Smartphone manufacturer provided default features (e.g., default location services, iCloud, Google Assistant, ad tracking) enhance the usability and extend the functionality of the…

cs.HC2023

ExD: Explainable Deletion

Kopo M. Ramokapane, Awais Rashid

This paper focuses on a critical yet often overlooked aspect of data in digital systems and services-deletion. Through a review of existing literature we highlight the challenges t…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Towards Equitable Privacy

Kopo M. Ramokapane, Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Nikhil Patnaik +4

Ensuring equitable privacy experiences remains a challenge, especially for marginalised and vulnerable populations (MVPs) who often hesitate to participate or use digital services…

cs.HC2023★ 6 cited

Co-creating a Transdisciplinary Map of Technology-mediated Harms, Risks and Vulnerabilities: Challenges, Ambivalences and Opportunities

Andrés Domínguez Hernández, Kopo M. Ramokapane, Partha Das Chowdhury +5

The phrase "online harms" has emerged in recent years out of a growing political willingness to address the ethical and social issues associated with the use of the Internet and di…

cs.CR2022

Usability Study of Security Features in Programmable Logic Controllers

Karen Li, Kopo M. Ramokapane, Awais Rashid

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) drive industrial processes critical to society, for example, water treatment and distribution, electricity and fuel networks. Search engines,…

cs.CY2022★ 1 cited

From Utility to Capability: A New Paradigm to Conceptualize and Develop Inclusive PETs

Partha Das Chowdhury, Andres Dominguez, Kopo M. Ramokapane +1

The wider adoption of PETs has relied on usability studies, which focus mainly on an assessment of how a specified group of users interface, in particular contexts, with the techni…

cs.CR2021★ 21 cited

The best laid plans or lack thereof: Security decision-making of different stakeholder groups

Benjamin Shreeve, Joseph Hallett, Matthew Edwards +3

Cyber security requirements are influenced by the priorities and decisions of a range of stakeholders. Board members and CISOs determine strategic priorities. Managers have respons…