Regulating Access to Adult Content (with Privacy Preservation)

Renaud, K. and Maguire, J. (2015) Regulating Access to Adult Content (with Privacy Preservation). In: CHI 2015, Seoul, Korea, 18-23 Apr 2015, pp. 4019-4028. ISBN 9781450331456 (doi: 10.1145/2702123.2702456)

Abstract

In the physical world we have well-established mechanisms for keeping children out of adult-only areas. In the virtual world this is generally replaced by self declaration. Some service providers resort to using heavy-weight identification mechanisms, judging adulthood as a side effect thereof. Collection of identification data arguably constitutes an unwarranted privacy invasion in this context, if carried out merely to perform adulthood estimation. This paper presents a mechanism that exploits the adult's more extensive exposure to public media, relying on the likelihood that they will be able to recall details if cued by a carefully chosen picture. We conducted an online study to gauge the viability of this scheme. With our prototype we were able to predict that the user was a child 99% of the time. Unfortunately the scheme also misclassified too many adults. We discuss our results and suggest directions for future research.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Renaud, Professor Karen and Maguire, Dr Joseph
• Authors: Renaud, K., and Maguire, J.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• ISBN: 9781450331456
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2015 ACM
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.