Abstract
<p>The purpose of the study was to determine the level of knowledge and attitudes towards surveillance capitalism and online institutional privacy protection practices among adolescents in Poland (aged 18–19), as well as to determine the relationships between these variables. Surveillance capitalism has emerged as a result of internet users’ activities and involves the collection of all data about these users by different entities for specific benefits without letting them know about it. The dominant role in surveillance capitalism is played by hi-tech corporations. The aim of the study was to verify whether knowledge, and what kind of knowledge, on surveillance capitalism translates into practices related to the protection of online institutional privacy. The study was conducted on a sample of 177 adolescents in Poland. The main part of the questionnaire consisted of two scales: the scale of knowledge and attitudes on surveillance capitalism, and the scale of online institutional privacy protection practices. The results of the study, calculated by statistical methods, showed that although the majority of respondents had average knowledge and attitudes about surveillance capitalism, which may result from insufficient knowledge of the subject matter, this participation in specialized activities/workshops influences the level of intensification of online institutional privacy protection practices.</p>
Highlights
In the digital era, digital data is a valuable resource
Many researchers dealing with data (Clark 2006; Ashworth, Free 2006; Degli Esposti 2014; van Dijck 2014) underline that commercial data collection is a new form of surveillance deined as dataveillance or surveillance capitalism (Zubof 2015, 2019). he researchers observed that digital data can be analyzed by algorithms for commercial or political outcomes to foresee successfully sexual orientation (Jernigan, Mistree 2009), gender, ethnic origin, political views, and religion (Kosinski, Stillwell, Graepel 2013), and for a political proiling (Nadler, Crain, Donovan, 2018)
U surveillance capitalism. he purpose of the study was to determine the knowledge and attitudes on surveillance capitalism possessed by youths in Poland aged of 18–19 years, and whether this relates to online privacy protection practices
Summary
Surveillance capitalism has emerged as a result of internet users’ activities and involves the collection of all data about these users by different entities for speciic beneits without letting them know about it. The dominant role in surveillance capitalism is played by hi-tech corporations. U knowledge, and what kind of knowledge, on surveillance capitalism translates into practices related to the protection of online institutional privacy. The main part of the questionnaire consisted of two scales: the scale of knowledge and attitudes on surveillance capitalism, and the scale of online institutional privacy protection practices. The results of the study, calculated by statistical methods, showed that the majority of respondents had average knowledge and attitudes about surveillance capitalism, which may result from insuficient knowledge of the subject matter, this participation in specialized activities/workshops inluences the level of intensiication of online institutional privacy protection practices
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