4 papers
Understanding Help Seeking for Digital Privacy, Safety, and Security
Kurt Thomas, Sai Teja Peddinti, Sarah Meiklejohn +7
The complexity of navigating digital privacy, safety, and security threats often falls directly on users. This leads to users seeking help from family and peers, platforms and advi…
Give and Take: An End-To-End Investigation of Giveaway Scam Conversion Rates
Enze Liu, George Kappos, Eric Mugnier +6
Scams -- fraudulent schemes designed to swindle money from victims -- have existed for as long as recorded history. However, the Internet's combination of low communication cost, g…
Supporting Human Raters with the Detection of Harmful Content using Large Language Models
Kurt Thomas, Patrick Gage Kelley, David Tao +7
In this paper, we explore the feasibility of leveraging large language models (LLMs) to automate or otherwise assist human raters with identifying harmful content including hate sp…
Understanding Help-Seeking and Help-Giving on Social Media for Image-Based Sexual Abuse
Miranda Wei, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley +7
Image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), like other forms of technology-facilitated abuse, is a growing threat to people's digital safety. Attacks include unwanted solicitations for sexual…