Privacy and Security Threat Models and Mitigation Strategies of Older Adults
summary
Qualitative study of 46 semi-structured interviews with English-speaking adults aged 65–95 living alone, in independent housing, or senior facilities finds concrete threat models and failures: widespread use of second‑hand and public devices with no awareness of inherited malware or missing updates, resignation to surveillance as a trade-off of privacy for care in senior residences, mixed beliefs about being targeted, frequent delegation of security to family or volunteers, unusable protections, scams posing as help, and mitigation that often means limiting or avoiding technology.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:26Motivation
- 1:55Main Themes
- 4:54Unrecognized Threats: Public Devices and Services
- 6:44Unrecognized Threats: Second-Hand Devices
- 8:07Uncertainties and Misconceptions
- 9:11Management Strategies
- 11:52Troubleshooting
- 15:04Sources of Information about Risks
- 16:35Future Work
- 17:56Conclusions
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