6 papers
The Privacy Placebo: Diagnosing Consent Burden through Performative Scrolling
Haoze Guo, Ziqi Wei
While consent banners and privacy policies invite users to read and choose, many choices are shaped by repeated, low-yield interaction routines rather than deliberation. This paper…
Behind the Feed: A Taxonomy of User-Facing Cues for Algorithmic Transparency in Social Media
Haoze Guo, Ziqi Wei
People who use social media are learning about how the companies that run these platforms make their decisions on who gets to see what through visual indicators in the interface (U…
From OCR to Analysis: Tracking Correction Provenance in Digital Humanities Pipelines
Haoze Guo, Ziqi Wei
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a critical but error-prone stage in digital humanities text pipelines. While OCR correction improves usability for downstream NLP tasks, comm…
Temporal Drift in Privacy Recall: Users Misremember From Verbatim Loss to Gist-Based Overexposure
Haoze Guo, Ziqi Wei
With social media content traversing the different platforms, occasionally resurfacing after periods of time, users are increasingly prone to unintended disclosure resulting from a…
ConsentDiff at Scale: Longitudinal Audits of Web Privacy Policy Changes and UI Frictions
Haoze Guo
Web privacy is experienced via two public artifacts: site utterances in policy texts, and the actions users are required to take during consent interfaces. In the extensive cross-s…
Hidden-in-Plain-Text: A Benchmark for Social-Web Indirect Prompt Injection in RAG
Haoze Guo, Ziqi Wei
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems put more and more emphasis on grounding their responses in user-generated content found on the Web, amplifying both their usefulness an…