Problem
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privacy awareness
developer decision-making
privacy violations
legal documents
system design
Privacy Detective: A Narrative Game that Cultivates Student Developers' Privacy Awareness by Harnessing Legal Documents
🤖 AI Summary
This work proposes Privacy Detective, a narrative-driven detective game that transforms real Federal Trade Commission (FTC) legal documents into interactive educational content to address the inadequate privacy awareness commonly observed among student developers. In the game, players investigate cases, identify evidence of privacy violations, and compose structured violation reports, thereby enhancing their privacy sensitivity and analytical skills. An empirical evaluation demonstrates that students who engaged with the game significantly outperformed a control group—who only read the original legal texts—in accurately identifying genuine privacy violations, reducing false positives, and articulating more comprehensive justifications for violations. By integrating gamified learning with authentic legal practice, this approach offers an innovative and effective intervention for privacy education in software development.
📝 Abstract
Developers' choices about what data a system collects, how it is used and shared, and what defaults govern user choices directly shape users' privacy experiences. Yet, developers often make problematic privacy-related design decisions without realizing the potential consequences. We introduce Privacy Detective, a narrative investigation game that leverages real-world legal documents to train developers' privacy awareness. In the game, players search for privacy violation evidence derived from legal documents and organize this evidence into privacy violation reports using curated templates. We evaluated Privacy Detective in a between-subjects study with student developers, comparing it against a baseline in which participants read raw FTC legal documents. Participants in the game condition identified more true violations than the baseline group, flagged fewer non-issues, and provided more complete justifications for the violations they reported.
Innovation
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privacy awareness
narrative game
legal documents
developer education
privacy violations
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