Information Privacy Concerns Research Articles

Impact of Personality Traits and Information Privacy Concern on E-Learning Environment Adoption during COVID-19 Pandemic: An Empirical Investigation

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching and learning processes have experienced significant changes. Higher education institutions in Taiwan employed crisis intervention measures to instantly implement unified learning methods such as online teaching and learning. However, students had no time to prepare. Thus, the study explored the relationship between personality traits and the belief in conspiracy theory as antecedents of students’ concern for information privacy (CFIP) and the subsequent relationship between students’ CFIP and behavioral intention to report their personal information to e-learning service providers concerning the adoption of the e-learning environment. This cross-sectional study employed a questionnaire to accumulate data from university students in Taiwan. A total of 285 valid responses were used for the final analysis. The research framework was evaluated by structural equation modeling (SEM). The results suggest the proposed model explains about 66.4% of the variance of behavioral intention (R2 = 0.664). The findings support that four personality traits—agreeableness, openness to experiences, conscientiousness, and neuroticism—and belief in conspiracy theory significantly influenced students’ CFIP. However, concerning extraversion, an insignificant path coefficient was reported. CFIP mediates the relationship between belief in conspiracy theory and behavioral intention. E-learning service providers should consider these determinants in improving and endorsing principles concerning e-learning environment adoption.

The Impact of Health Information Privacy Concerns on Engagement and Payment Behaviors in Online Health Communities.

Online health communities (OHCs) have enjoyed increasing popularity in recent years, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, several concerns have been raised regarding the privacy of users’ personal information in OHCs. Considering that OHCs are a type of data-sharing or data-driven platform, it is crucial to determine whether users’ health information privacy concerns influence their behaviors in OHCs. Thus, by conducting a survey, this study explores the impact of users’ health information privacy concerns on their engagement and payment behavior (Paid) in OHCs. The empirical results show that users’ concerns about health information privacy reduce their Paid in OHCs by negatively influencing their OHC engagement. Further analysis reveals that if users have higher benefit appraisals (i.e., perceived informational and emotional support from OHCs) and lower threat appraisals (i.e., perceived severity and vulnerability of information disclosure from OHCs), the negative effect of health information privacy concerns on users’ OHC engagement will decrease.

Investigating Undergraduates' Information Privacy Concerns on Social Media Website and Establishing a Causal Relationship Model

<p>本研究針對大學生對社群媒網站(Facebook 和 Instagram)的資訊隱私關注進行探究,以瞭解他們的隱私傾向、線上隱私關注、信任信念、風險信念與網站隱私關注的現況及之間的關係,建立社群媒介網站資訊隱私關注的因果關係模式。以自編問卷進行調查研究,374 位大學生為調查對象,問卷有效回收率93.5%。資料分析採用項目分析、因素分析與結構方程式。結果發現:1.大學生的社群媒介網站資訊隱私關注、隱私傾向和風險信念之現況為中上程度,線上隱私關注之現況頗佳為高等程度,大學生的信任信念現況為中等程度;2.大學生的隱私傾向、線上隱私關注和風險信念會正向影響社群媒介網站資訊隱私關注;3.建立影響大學生社群媒介網站資訊隱私關注因素的修正模式。</p> <p> </p><p>This study explored undergraduates’ perspectives regarding information privacy on social media (Facebook and Instagram) to understand their disposition to privacy, online privacy concerns, and trust and risk beliefs. Moreover, a causal relationship model was established to assess the undergraduates’ information privacy concerns regarding social media platforms. A self-developed questionnaire survey was conducted with 374 undergraduates, with a response rate of 93.5%. Data collected were analyzed using item analysis, factor analysis, and a structural equation model. The results revealed the following: (1) Currently, the information privacy concerns of undergraduates regarding social media websites are at the upper-middle level, with their disposition to privacy being at the upper-middle level and their online privacy concerns being at a considerably high level. Moreover, their trust beliefs are moderate, whereas their risk beliefs are at the upper-middle level. (2) Disposition to privacy, online privacy concerns, and risk beliefs positively influence the undergraduates’ social media website information privacy concerns. (3) A causal relationship model was established to explain the relationship between the aforementioned factors and undergraduates’ social media website information privacy concerns. The study results provide insights into and can help predict undergraduates’ concerns regarding information privacy on social media websites.</p> <p> </p>

The Status Quo of Japanese Consumers’ Personal Information Disclosure: the Influence of Information Control and Privacy Concerns

This study examined the effects of privacy concerns, information control, and perceived benefits of personal information disclosure of Japanese consumers, on the attitudes toward disclosing personal information and the willingness to disclose information. The results of an online survey on Japanese consumers aged 20–60 (N = 1,000) confirm the moderation effect of information control and the mediation effect of perceived benefits on the relationship between privacy concerns and the attitudes toward disclosing personal information. The willingness to disclose medical and financial information, along with social media profiles, is negatively associated with privacy concerns compared to typical personal information like names and addresses.

Investigating mobile users’ intention: Technology acceptance and privacy perspectives

Smartphones are essential devices in most people’s lives nowadays. There are many benefits offered by smartphones, such as: the ability to access the internet, e-mail, access social media, etc. Their advanced features and ease of use enhances their functionality including storing contacts, photos, videos and other sensitive information. Thus, smartphones become attractive target for hackers especially with regard to get unauthorized access to sensitive data from users that violates their privacy. This paper investigated the impact of users’ intention in using a smartphone despite privacy threats that can occur. Questionnaires were distributed to 300 respondents who were actively using a smartphone to obtain the study data. The level of relationships among the constructs were analysed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The results of this study indicate that the factors that influence users in using a smartphone are mobile users’ information privacy concern, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness.

An Information Privacy Concerns and Expectations Study of Demographic Groups in South Africa

An Information Privacy Concerns and Expectations Study of Demographic Groups in South Africa

The Development and Validation of Information Privacy Concerns Scale for Social Networking Sites

The Development and Validation of Information Privacy Concerns Scale for Social Networking Sites

Pengaruh Kesadaran Keamanan Informasi dan Privasi Jaringan Sosial Terhadap Perilaku Perlindungan Privasi pada Para Pengguna Jaringan Sosial

Social networks are communication media that are used for sharing information and communicating. However, the popularity of social networks's user can not cover the anxiety about the privacy of user information data. This study aims to examine the factors that influence user anxiety about data security and security behavior. This study consists of five variables, namely response efficacy, self-efficacy, security awareness, and perceived security threat as an independent variable and internet user information privacy concern, and security behavior as the dependent variable. This study is a quantitative study that collects data and distributes questionnaires. The data in the study were analyzed through structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques with the help of SPSS. From the results of the study, this study proves that user perceptions of security threats (perceived security threats) have a significant effect on user anxiety about data privacy security when accessing social networks (Internet Users' Information Privacy Concern). This research provides insight to social network users to be more selective in managing data information security in providing personal data and taking protective actions against security behavior.

Interactions between Culture, Regulatory Structure, and Information Privacy across countries

We analyze the relationships between country culture and country regulatory structure pertaining to information privacy concerns (IPC) in the context of social media applications. Drawing on prior research we develop a framework that integrates country culture and country regulatory structure and use it as the basis for a study that contrasts samples of 1086 professionals drawn from four countries – United States, United Kingdoms, India and Hong Kong – to assess effects of national culture and of a nation’s regulatory structure on IPC, attitudinal beliefs about information privacy and professionals’ behavioral reactions to IPC. We find that country culture has a strong bearing on explaining differences in individuals’ IPC concerns, attitudinal beliefs about privacy, and behavioral reactions to privacy much more than does country regulatory structure. Country culture remains a significant factor in the management of information privacy. The results also show that country regulatory structure remains deficient in allaying individuals’ concerns pertaining to information privacy.

THE QUALITY OF SURVEY SCALES FOR MEASURING INFORMATION PRIVACY CONCERNS ON SOCIAL NETWORK SITES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Information privacy concerns (IPCs) play an important role in user behavior on social network sites (SNSs). They are associated with self-disclosure behavior, enjoyment, and, perhaps most importantly, a user’s intention and ability to form and sustain social ties on SNSs. While conceptual integration of different approaches to studying IPCs has already been pursued, prior research has pointed to potential problems with respect to the survey measurements of IPCs. More specifically, a plethora of self-assessment scales have been developed but the differences among them have not yet been systematically elaborated, and this is further complicated by many methodologically questionable adaptations of existing IPC survey scales to ever-emerging online contexts and SNS platforms. Accordingly, this study comprises a systematic literature review based on the COSMIN methodology to comprehensively examine the quality of survey scales used for measuring IPCs among SNS users. The results have unveiled significant variety with 35 uni- or multidimensional survey scales used in 71 articles published since 2009. Many of the scales are of questionable quality in terms of structural validity, and only a few of the studies tested them for measurement invariance. Nevertheless, we identified some scales that are promising candidates for future use, although further testing and potential improvements are needed. Our findings could also act as the foundation for a unified measurement approach to IPCs that could be used across different SNSs platforms.

The effects of different personal data categories on information privacy concern and disclosure

The potential threats of exposing personal data associated with online services have been a reason for concern, and individuals as customers may decline to disclose their data due to trust issues. Literature has shown evidence that greater transparency in the types and purposes of data requested encourages individuals to disclose personal data. This evidence indicates a need to examine the characteristics of personal information practices. Furthermore, current data privacy regulations recognize the presence of different data characteristics such as location-specific, health-specific, and financial-specific. Yet, current legislations are formed to identify personal data as a singular category regardless of the requirements, including the specification of processed personal data to be relevant and limited to what is necessary for enabling service functions. Without categorization, measuring “relevant” and “necessary” can be ambiguous. Several pieces of researches have explored the impact of personal information type and sensitivity level on privacy concern and disclosure; however, most of them lacked an in-depth examination of data categorization with systematic validation. Our study aims to fill this gap, and additionally further look into how contextual demographic factors influence the perception on information privacy concern and disclosure of different personal data categories from a Malaysian perspective. Our study provides new evidence of validated personal data categories and their significant differences in perceived information privacy concern and disclosure intention. Our research finding also discovers that Age, Gender, and Working Industry, as demographic factors, have significant effects on disclosure intention associated with Tracking, Finance, Authenticating, and Medical-health information.

Interactions Between Culture, Regulatory Structure, and Information Privacy Across Countries

We analyze the relationships between country culture and country regulatory structure pertaining to information privacy concerns (IPC) in the context of social media applications. Drawing on prior research we develop a framework that integrates country culture and country regulatory structure and use it as the basis for a study that contrasts samples of 1086 professionals drawn from four countries – United States, United Kingdoms, India and Hong Kong – to assess effects of national culture and of a nation’s regulatory structure on IPC, attitudinal beliefs about information privacy and professionals’ behavioral reactions to IPC. We find that country culture has a strong bearing on explaining differences in individuals’ IPC concerns, attitudinal beliefs about privacy, and behavioral reactions to privacy much more than does country regulatory structure. Country culture remains a significant factor in the management of information privacy. The results also show that country regulatory structure remains deficient in allaying individuals’ concerns pertaining to information privacy.

Antecedents and Outcomes of Information Privacy Concerns in the Saudi Arabia Social Networking Context

Online information privacy has become a developing social worry that may hinder individuals' social site associations. The motivation behind this investigation is to dissect the effect of an err toward privacy and the social presence of a website on a person's privacy concerns about the website. Data were collected from 650 respondents in Saudi Arabia. The findings indicate a significance influence of informativness, social presence, utility of website, perceived severity, and self-efficacy on website-specific privacy concerns. Furthermore, privacy concerns have a significant influence on behavioural intentions. This study also extends the information privacy literature through the analysis of the drivers and outcomes of online privacy concerns in the social network context.

Gender Differentials on Information Sharing and Privacy Concerns on Social Networking Sites

This paper undertakes to explore the perceptions of academics regarding information sharing on social network sites (SNS) and related privacy issues. Specifically, the paper was designed targeting academics using SNS to disseminate information and/or for other academic purposes. The paper is based on a mixed method research, the exploratory stage consequential for the confirmatory stage of the research. The findings of the research highly the complex relationships between personal information collection and usage (PICU) factors, personal information control (PIC) factors, and awareness of the effectiveness of privacy policy (AEPP) factors. This culminates in the formulation of a research model based on the theory of reasoned action. Given that the research took place within a context where gender is significant in shaping the worldview of the individual, groups, and society, the paper also seeks to contribute to the existing gender-based narrative on information sharing and privacy issues on SNS, mainly demystifying gender-based stereotypes.

Should We Be Concerned about How Information Privacy Concerns Are Measured in Online Contexts? A Systematic Review of Survey Scale Development Studies

This systematic review addresses problems identified in existing research on survey measurements of individuals’ information privacy concerns in online contexts. The search in this study focused on articles published between 1996 and 2019 and yielded 970 articles. After excluding duplicates and screening for eligibility, we were left with 13 articles in which the investigators developed a total of 16 survey scales. In addition to reviewing the conceptualizations, contexts, and dimensionalities of the scales, we evaluated the quality of methodological procedures used in the scale development process, drawing upon the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) Risk of Bias checklist. The results confirmed that the breadth of conceptualizations and dimensions of information privacy concerns are constructed with a low emphasis on contextuality. Assessment of the quality of methodological procedures suggested a need for a more thorough evaluation of content validity. We provide several recommendations for tackling these issues and propose new research directions.

Governance in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) Context: Examination of Information Privacy, Transport Anxiety, Intention, and Usage

This study examines the validity and acceptability of concern for information privacy with the Internet of vehicle context. For this purpose, the exploratory and confirmatory analysis processes were performed for testing the validity of concern for the Internet of vehicle information privacy. A total number of 357 responses were received online which were complete in all respects from college and university students studying information system course at undergraduate and graduate level. The estimated results obtained from exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis revealed that 3-dimension construct containing collection, error, and information accuracy measuring governance for Internet of vehicle information privacy (CFIOVIP) was validated through second order construction with strong goodness-of-fit estimates. The relevant factors were reliable and valid as per their internal and external validity estimates of Cronbach Alpha, average variance extracted, composite reliability, discriminant validity, and factor loading values including their fitness indices for 16 items for 3-dimension construct of CFIOVIP. The findings of the study indicate that Internet of vehicle users view secondary usage of information and unauthorised access of information as the same dimension with the title of information access for measuring CFIOVIP along with two other constructs like collection and error in information for the Internet of vehicle context. The study recommends a 2nd order CFIOVIP construct based on three dimensions, namely, collection, error, and information access, for testing the present governance of the Internet of vehicles.

Validity and Reliability of the Scale Internet Users’ Information Privacy Concerns (IUIPC)

Abstract Internet Users’ Information Privacy Concerns (IUIPC-10) is one of the most endorsed privacy concern scales. It is widely used in the evaluation of human factors of PETs and the investigation of the privacy paradox. Even though its predecessor Concern For Information Privacy (CFIP) has been evaluated independently and the instrument itself seen some scrutiny, we are still missing a dedicated confirmation of IUIPC-10, itself. We aim at closing this gap by systematically analyzing IUIPC’s construct validity and reliability. We obtained three mutually independent samples with a total of N = 1031 participants. We conducted a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) on our main sample to assert the validity and reliability of IUIPC-10. Having found weaknesses, we proposed a respecified instrument IUIPC-8 with improved psychometric properties. Finally, we confirmed our findings on a validation sample. While we found sound foundations for content validity and could confirm the overall three-dimensionality of IUIPC-10, we observed evidence of biases in the question wording and found that IUIPC-10 consistently missed the mark in evaluations of construct validity and reliability, calling into question the unidimensionality of its sub-scales Awareness and Control. Our respecified scale IUIPC-8 offers a statistically significantly better model and outperforms IUIPC-10’s construct validity and reliability. The disconfirming evidence on IUIPC-10’s construct validity raises doubts how well it measures the latent variable Information Privacy Concern. The less than desired reliability could yield spurious and erratic results as well as attenuate relations with other latent variables, such as behavior. Thereby, the instrument could confound studies of human factors of PETs or the privacy paradox, in general.

Information privacy concern at individual, group, organization and societal level - a literature review

Purpose In today’s digitized environment, information privacy has become a prime concern for everybody. The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of information privacy concern arising because of the application of computer-based information system in the various domains (E-Governance, E-Commerce, E-Health, E-Banking and E-Finance), and at different levels, i.e. individual, group, organizational and societal. Design/methodology/approach The authors performed an in-depth analysis of different research articles related to information privacy concerns and elements affecting those at certain level of applications. The primary sources of literature were articles retrieved from online databases. Various online journal and scholarly articles were searched in detail to locate information privacy-related articles. Findings The authors have carried out a detailed literature review to identify the different levels where the privacy is a big challenging task. This paper provides insights whether information privacy concern may obstruct in the successful dispersal and adoption of different applications in various application domains. Consumers’ attitude towards information privacy concerns have enlightened and addressed at individual levels in numerous domains. Privacy concerns at the individual level, as suggested by our analysis, seem to have been sufficiently addressed or addressed. However, information privacy concerns at other levels – group, organizational and societal levels – need the attention of researchers. Originality/value In this paper, the authors have posited that it will help the researchers to more focus at group level privacy perspective in the information privacy era.

A Review of Passenger Digital Information Privacy Concerns in Smart Airports

There is an increasing interest in the use of various digital technologies for interacting with passengers at smart airports. However, there is a need to identify and address the privacy issues that may threaten passenger’s digital information during their interactions with smart airports applications. This study applies a systematic literature review method and reports the passenger’s digital information privacy issues that arise during different stages of their travel journey in smart airports. This research identified a set of 324 studies, which were then reviewed to obtain a final set of 31 relevant studies to address the research questions in hand. The review results were organized into five major categories: passenger travel journey through smart airports applications; elements involved (people, process, information, and technology) in the journey; passenger’s digital information privacy challenges; current solutions for identified challenges; passenger’s information standards and privacy regulations. These results are further analyzed to report important insights and future research directions about the privacy of passenger’s digital information in smart airports. This study will aid researchers and practitioners in obtaining a better understanding of the privacy concerns when dealing with the passenger’s digital information at the digitally enabled smart airports.

Information Privacy Concerns Among Instagram Users: The Case of Indonesian College Students

Background: Teenagers in Indonesia have an open nature and satisfy their desire to exist by uploading photos or videos and writing posts on Instagram. The habit of uploading photos, videos, or writings containing their personal information can be dangerous and potentially cause user privacy problems. Several criminal cases caused by information misuse have occurred in Indonesia.Objective: This paper investigates information privacy concerns among Instagram users in Indonesia, more specifically amongst college students, the largest user group of Instagram in Indonesia.Methods: This study referred to the Internet Users' Information Privacy Concerns (IUIPC) method by collecting data through the distribution of online questionnaires and analyzed the data by using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM).Results: The research finding showed that even though students are mindful of the potential danger of information misuse in Instagram, it does not affect their intention to use Instagram. Other factors that influence Indonesian college students' trust are Instagram's reputation, the number of users who use Instagram, the ease of using Instagram, the skills and knowledge of Indonesian students about Instagram, and the privacy settings that Instagram has.Conclusion: The awareness and concern of Indonesian college students for information privacy will significantly influence the increased risk awareness of information privacy. However, the increase in risk awareness does not directly affect Indonesian college students' behavior to post their private information on Instagram.