Security and Privacy in the Underserved Majority World: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities

Recent developments in security and privacy have emphasized the need to consider human factors in security and privacy research and design. At the same time, however, most of the existing body of work has focused on Western populations, particularly in the US and Europe, despite other research showing that security and privacy perceptions and practices vary across countries and cultures. Consequently, the security and privacy solutions designed and evaluated in the West can quickly fall apart when used or applied to other regions in the “majority world,” leaving end-users at risk. In this talk, Collins will draw from a series of studies across the majority world to highlight unique security and privacy challenges. The first part will focus on Kenya,