With the advent of child-centric content-sharing platforms, such as YouTube Kids, thousands of children, from all age groups are consuming gigabytes of content on a daily basis. With PBS Kids, Disney Jr. and countless others joining in the fray, this consumption of video data stands to grow further in quantity Read more…
YouTube hosts a wide variety of user-generated videos accessible to a global population of users. The potential of videos to persuade users by engaging them with the experience of the content creator makes them an attractive medium for promoting various kinds of products and services, including apps and websites. The Read more…
We explore privacy perceptions, beliefs, and practices of low-literate, low-income users in Pakistan, a patriarchal and religious context with a literacy rate of approx. 68% and where 59% of mobile users have less than 6 years of formal education. Through a qualitative study with 40 participants (17 male and 23 female), Read more…
The representatives of all the project partners from Pakistan and Turkey visited Germany in June 2022 for in-depth training and seminars on the psychological aspect of the RECYPHER project. The sessions were mainly focused on the association of psychology with cybersecurity. A cultural and educational trip was organized to Luxembourg Read more…
The primary objective of this game is to raise awareness and educate students, tech-literate as well as non-tech-savvy people about website spoofing and how such vulnerabilities invite trouble. We want to instill in them the basic knowledge of how to smartly and securely manage their data online. The goal of Read more…
AI-manipulated videos, commonly known as deepfakes, are an emerging problem. Recently, researchers in academia and industry have contributed several (self-created) benchmark deepfake datasets, and deepfake detection algorithms. However, little effort has gone towards understanding deepfake videos in the wild, leading to a limited understanding of the real-world applicability of research Read more…