Dr Karen Renaud

Publications

Introducing the need to use technology as a tool, and not as a master

Renaud Karen, McGuire Michael

(2024)

Tweens' mental models of online dark patterns

Renaud Karen

(2024)

VISTA: An Inclusive Insider Threat Taxonomy, With Mitigation Strategies

Renaud Karen

(2024)

'We're not that gullible!' Revealing 'dark pattern' mental models of 11-12 year-old Scottish children

Renaud Karen, Sengul Cigdem, Coopamootoo Kovila, Clift Bryan, Taylor Jacqui, Springett Mark, Morrison Benjamin

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (2024)

VISTA : an inclusive insider threat taxonomy, with mitigation strategies

Renaud Karen, Warkentin Merrill, Pogrebna Ganna, van der Schyff Karl

Information & Management Vol 61 (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2023.103877

Privacy in UK police digital forensics investigations

Schaik Paul van, Irons Alastair, Renaud Karen

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), pp. 1-10 (2024)

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Professional Activities

New Security Paradigms Workshop (Event)

Member

14/9/2024

Workshop on Accessible Security and Privacy (WASP) co-located with IEEE Euro S&P 2024 (Event)

Member

23/5/2024

EnCyCriS/SVM 2024 (Event)

Member

15/4/2024

New Security Paradigms Workshop 2024 (Event)

Advisor

12/4/2024

ARES Conference: Availability, Reliability, Security (Event)

Advisor

27/3/2024

11th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (Event)

Advisor

27/3/2024

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Projects

WELL-CONSENT documents: true consent through subtraction

Renaud, Karen (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2023

AP4L: Adaptive PETs to Protect & emPower People during Life Transitions

Moncur, Wendy (Principal Investigator) Renaud, Karen (Co-investigator) Yan, Jeff (Co-investigator)

AP4L is a 3-year program of interdisciplinary research, centring on the online privacy & vulnerability challenges that people face when going through major life transitions. Our central goal is to develop privacy-by-design technologies to protect & empower people during these transitions. Our work is driven by a narrative that will be familiar to most people. Life often "just happens", leading people to overlook their core privacy and online safety needs. For instance, somebody undergoing cancer treatment may be less likely to finesse their privacy setting on social media when discussing the topic. Similarly, an individual undergoing gender transition may be unaware of how their online activities in the past may shape the treatment into the future. This project will build the scientific and theoretical foundations to explore these challenges, as well as design and evaluate three core innovations that will address the identified challenges. AP4L will introduce a step-change, making online safety and privacy as painless and seamless as possible during life transitions

To ensure a breadth of understanding, we will apply these concepts to four very different transitions through a series of carefully designed co-creation activities, devised as part of a stakeholder workshop held in Oct'21. These are relationship breakdowns; LBGT+ transitions or transitioning gender; entering/ leaving employment in the Armed Forces; and developing a serious illness or becoming terminally ill. Such transitions can significantly change privacy considerations in unanticipated or counter-intuitive ways. For example, previously enabled location-sharing with a partner may lead to stalking after a breakup; 'coming out' may need careful management across diverse audiences (e.g - friends, grandparents) on social media.

We will study these transitions, following a creative security approach, bringing together interdisciplinary expertise in Computer Science, Law, Business, Psychology and Criminology.

We will systematise this knowledge, and develop fundamental models of the nature of transitions and their interplay with online lives. These models will inform the development of a suite of technologies and solutions that will help people navigate significant life transitions through adaptive, personalised privacy-enhanced interventions that meet the needs of each individual and bolster their resilience, autonomy, competence and connection. The suite will comprise:

(1) "Risk Playgrounds", which will build resilience by helping users to explore potentially risky interactions of life transitions with privacy settings across their digital footprint in safe ways

(2) "Transition Guardians", which will provide real-time protection for users during life transitions.

(3) "Security Bubbles", which will promote connection by bringing people together who can help each other (or who need to work together) during one person's life transition, whilst providing additional guarantees to safeguard everyone involved.

In achieving this vision, and as evidenced by £686K of in-kind contributions, we will work with 26 core partners spanning legal enforcement agencies (e.g., Surrey Police), tech companies (e.g., Facebook, IBM), support networks (e.g., LGBT Foundation, Revenge Porn Helpline) and associated organisations (e.g., Ofcom, Mastercard, BBC). Impact will be delivered through various activities including a specially commissioned BBC series on online life transitions to share knowledge with the public; use of the outputs of our projects by companies & social platforms (e.g., by incorporating into their products, & by designing their products to take into consideration the findings of our project) & targeted workshops to enable knowledge exchange with partners & stakeholders.

01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025

Revealing Young Learners’ Mental Models of Online Sludge

Renaud, Karen (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022

SIPR PhD Studentships Proposal:Improving Cybercrime reporting

Thomas, Daniel (Principal Investigator) Renaud, Karen (Co-investigator) Sikra, Juraj (Researcher)

01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2024

CENSIS PhD Studentship: A mechanism for preventing access to adult content.

Renaud, Karen (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2024

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