Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of Privacy Regulation - Parents' IoT Toy Privacy Norms Versus COPPA

Explore a 21-minute conference talk from USENIX Security '19 that examines the alignment between parents' privacy expectations for Internet-connected children's toys and the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Learn about a novel survey method based on contextual integrity theory used to quantify and scale the measurement of regulatory provisions' conformity to privacy norms. Discover key findings from a study of 195 parents, which generally supports COPPA's mandates while highlighting the importance of contextual factors in privacy expectations. Gain insights into the variations in acceptability of data collection across different smart toys, information types, and parent demographics, and understand the implications for privacy regulations in the IoT era.