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On the User Acceptance of Privacy-Preserving Attribute-Based Credentials – A Qualitative Study

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Data Privacy Management and Security Assurance (DPM 2016, QASA 2016)

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Privacy and data protection are critical aspects of today’s use of Internet services. Privacy-preserving Attribute-based Credentials (Privacy-ABCs), also known as anonymous credentials, are elegant techniques to allow security and privacy go hand-in-hand. In this paper, we report on the results of our structured interviews with users who tried a prototype of Privacy-ABC identity card. We questioned their observations of benefits and barriers to use such technologies as well as their desired application. Moreover, we investigated their trust believes and anchors and inquired their preferred implementation scheme. Our results shed lights on the direction that must be followed to foster adoption of Privacy-ABCs.

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    https://abc4trust.eu/demo/hotelbooking.

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    Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen (Terms of Service).

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    A German consumer protection organization.

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    Technischer Überwachungsverein (Technical Inspection Association).

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  1. Deutsche Telekom Chair of Mobile Business and Multilateral Security, Goethe University Frankfurt, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 4, 60323, Frankfurt, Germany

    Ahmad Sabouri

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Crema, Italy

    Giovanni Livraga

  2. University of Skövde , Skövde, Sweden

    Vicenç Torra

  3. University of Urbino , Urbino, Italy

    Alessandro Aldini

  4. IIT National Research Council CNR , Pisa, Italy

    Fabio Martinelli

  5. Technische Universität Darmstadt , Darmstadt, Germany

    Neeraj Suri

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Sabouri, A. (2016). On the User Acceptance of Privacy-Preserving Attribute-Based Credentials – A Qualitative Study. In: Livraga, G., Torra, V., Aldini, A., Martinelli, F., Suri, N. (eds) Data Privacy Management and Security Assurance. DPM QASA 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9963. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47072-6_9

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