Publications

A conceptual framework to reveal privacy concerns in smart tourism

Kherees Mona Hashim M, Renaud Karen, Aljeaid Dania

10th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (2025)

A value-driven approach to the online consent conundrum - a study with the unemployed

Schaik Paul van, Renaud Karen

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy 11th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, pp. 133-140 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.5220/0013083300003899

Risk assessment & mitigation for core security capabilities

Dupuis Marc J, Renaud Karen

2024 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime) eCrime 2024 Boston 2024 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), pp. 43-57 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1109/eCrime66200.2024.00010

Achieving resilience : data loss and recovery in three countries

Wunder Julia, Wash Rick, Renaud Karen, Oliveira Daniela A, Benenson Zinaida

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2025)

"When data breaches happen, where does the buck stop ... and where should it stop?"

Das Chowdhury Partha, Renaud Karen, Rashid Awais

NSPW '24 New Security Paradigms Workshop, pp. 106-125 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1145/3703465.3703474

Privacy and security in digital health contact-tracing : a narrative review

Pigera Shehani, Schaik Paul van, Renaud Karen, Campbell Miglena, Manley Petra, Esser Pierre

Applied Sciences Vol 15 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.3390/app15020865

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Professional Activities

New Security Paradigms Workshop (Event)

Peer reviewer

25/4/2025

Mitigating insider threats: A deep dive

Speaker

20/3/2025

15th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security (Event)

Peer reviewer

19/3/2025

2nd Workshop on Accessible Security & Privacy (Event)

Peer reviewer

14/3/2025

20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (Event)

Peer reviewer

11/3/2025

IS security and privacy minitrack (Internet at Work and Play Track) (Event)

Peer reviewer

1/3/2025

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Projects

SELF-PROTECT: Privacy in a Context of Power Imbalance

Renaud, Karen (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024

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) English, Rosanne (Academic) 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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