Drawing on observations from three prior studies with youth aged 13--24, we examine how metaphor shapes the way young people reason about privacy and imagine privacy designs beyond settings panels. Spatial metaphors made complex permission structures feel like movement through rooms and the placing of objects within them. Embodied metaphors gave youth language for shared norms around presence, access, and intrusion. Fantastical metaphors turned privacy work into something playful and discoverable, prompting more generative and granular design ideas. Relational metaphors, however, exposed the same mechanism's downside: when a system feels like a loyal companion while data passes through an institution, youth may disclose more than they otherwise would. This provocation does not argue that some metaphors are good and others bad. It argues that metaphors meaningfully scaffold both the design process and the user experience of usable privacy, and that choosing one is an ethical decision about which norms a privacy interface makes easy to see, imagine, and act on.

翻译：基于对13至24岁青少年三项先前研究的观察，我们探讨隐喻如何塑造年轻人推理隐私问题及超越设置面板进行隐私设计想象的方式。空间隐喻使复杂的权限结构如同在不同房间移动和在其中放置物体般直观。具身隐喻为青少年提供了关于在场、访问和入侵的共享规范语言。幻想隐喻将隐私工作转化为可探索的游戏化行为，催生更具生成性与精细度的设计思路。然而，关系隐喻暴露了同一机制的反面：当系统看似忠诚伴侣而数据却经机构之手时，青少年可能会披露超出预期的信息。本文的批判性主张并非判定某些隐喻好坏优劣，而是强调隐喻切实为可用性隐私的设计过程与用户体验提供脚手架支撑——选择何种隐喻本质上是关于隐私界面应当让哪些规范易于被看见、想象并付诸行动的伦理决策。