I’m disappointed at the continued “blame the victim” framing these kinds of articles take – as if it’s a simple matter of changing the behaviour of hundreds of millions of consumers every day, it’s their own fault and no one else is culpable for nakedly exploiting this fact of human behaviour. Makes my blood boil.
Let’s take it as a given that when things get so complex that you need to create and force training on masses of end users, you have failed to design a system with which the end users can reasonably succeed.
In the future, as in the past, when people say “so we’re going to build training for that” I will continue to slow down the conversation and ask “is there a way for us to refactor the system that does not require separate and egregious training?”
| Study: Many Consumers Still Untrained On Privacy Risks:
Despite a high rate of concern about online threats, most consumers still do not pay much attention to their privacy settings in social media, and few have had any online security training according to a Harris Interactive survey of more than 2,000 adults sponsored by security vendor ESET… More than half of consumers have not read the most recent privacy policy for their social media accounts, the survey says. About 20% of consumers have never made any changes to the default privacy settings in their social media accounts. “This finding is worrying because of the very ‘open’ nature of most default social media settings, sometimes set by the social network operator to permit the widest possible use of your information,” ESET says in a blog about the study. “It is hard to think that everyone who leaves the default settings in place is aware of the implications.” |
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