A Model for Privacy Compromisation Value

AbstractPrivacy concerns exist whenever sensitive data relating to people is collected. Finding a way to preserve and guarantee an individual's privacy has always been of high importance. Some may decide not to reveal their data to protect their privacy. It has become impossible to take advantage of many essential customized services without disclosing any identifying or sensitive data. The challenge is that each data item may have a different value for different individuals. These values can be defined by applying weights that describe the importance of data items for individuals if that particular private data item is exposed. We propose a generic framework to capture these weights from data providers, which can be considered as a mediator to quantify privacy compromisation. This framework also helps us to identify what portion of a targeted population is vulnerable to compromise their privacy in return for receiving certain incentives. Conversely, the model could assist researchers to offer appropriate incentives to a targeted population to facilitate collecting useful data

Monitoring and recommending privacy settings in social networks

ABSTRACT Ensuring privacy of users of social networks is probably an unsolvable conundrum. It seems, however, that informed use of the existing privacy options by the social network participants may alleviate -or even prevent -some of the more drastic privacyaverse incidents. Unfortunately, recent surveys show that an average user is either not aware of these options or does not use them, probably due to their perceived complexity. It is therefore reasonable to believe that tools assisting users with two tasks: 1) understanding their social network behavior in terms of their privacy settings and broad privacy categories, and 2) recommending reasonable privacy options, will be a valuable tool for everyday privacy practice in a social network context. This paper presents early research that shows how simple machine learning techniques may provide useful assistance in these two tasks to Facebook users

How police officers juggle work, a life partner, and kids

Police officers frequently encounter stressful social situations during their working days. Furthermore, previous research on policing and families show that police officers’ families are impacted in different ways when at least one member of the family has the role of a police officer. Despite work spilling over to family life there is currently little research on police officers’ role-balancing. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore and describe the challenges that arise at the intersection between police officers’ professional roles and their private life roles as parents and life partners, as well as how police officers balance these roles in between. We used qualitative content analysis after interviewing 13 uniformed police officers. The findings show how the police officers’ professional roles affect their private life roles within three different sub-themes and are summarized under the theme of “Balancing conflicting roles: Coping with professional and private life commitments”. The theme revolves around the various challenges of working as a uniformed police officer, such as hypervigilance and risks, as well as the enrichments and conflicts of working shifts while also juggling private life roles. The results also touch on gender and equality in life-partner relationships. The study raises an important question about how these challenges can be mitigated within Police authorities to enable uniformed police officers to balance their professional and personal lives in a healthy and sustainable manner

Personality and mental health : an investigation of South African police trainees

The relationship between personality and mental health was investigated in one cohort of police trainees at a South African Police Academy (1145 police recruits; 648 men, 497 women). Male trainees reported less somatisation, depression, anxiety, and phobic anxiety symptoms and lower harm avoidance as well as higher persistence than female trainees. A cluster analysis based on the personality scores was used to identify three clusters with personality profiles characterized as Vulnerable, Healthy, and Intermediate profiles. Sociodemographic variables and temperament and character domain scores contributed separately and differentially to the explanation of variance in mental health symptom scores. Selection tools should be developed to identify Vulnerable individuals in terms of personality characteristics during selection and prior to training, to prevent later problems with stress reactions. Additional training modules focusing on coping skills could possibly reduce vulnerability to stress in some trainees

Resilience and Migration: Iranians Living in Australia

Migration is often a challenging and stressful experience but there is significant variation in the response of individuals to migration-related challenges. This study investigated factors that contribute to resilience among Iranians living in Australia and the relationship between resilience, migration, and socio-demographic variables. Data was collected from 182 Iranian immigrants and refugees. This study used a mixed-method design comprised of an online questionnaire and 12 semi-structured interviews. Lower levels of resilience were found among individuals who had experienced higher levels of discrimination compared to those who had experienced moderate levels (p < 0.05). Refugees reported lower levels of resilience and a higher experience of discrimination than immigrants (p < 0.05). Interview findings reveal the two main themes that contributed to resilience, which were protective factors including personal and social competencies, social and family support, and longer duration in Australia and risk factors such as unemployment, discrimination, and loneliness. Several possible approaches to assist immigrants and refugees are suggested, including strategies that could lessen the challenges of the migration process and enhance protective factors associated with resilience