Modern Web browsers provide users with tools to reduce the burden of filling out forms. Despite the widespread adoption of these tools, little is known about how they affect users’ privacy decision-making. This research compares traditional form ...

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is a pressing societal issue today. The German government promotes a contract tracing app named Corona-Warn-App (CWA), aiming to change citizens’ health behaviors during the pandemic by raising awareness about potential ...

When deciding where to visit next while traveling in a group, people have to make a trade-off in an interactive group recommender system between (a) disclosing their personal information to explain and support their arguments about what places to ...

Information privacy concerns have been rising over a few decades. As per the recent General Data Protection Regulation, organizations need to implement the highest-possible privacy settings by design and default. Following the neo-institutional ...

The amount of data stored in data repositories increases every year. This makes it challenging to link records between different datasets across companies and even internally, while adhering to privacy regulations. Address or name changes, and ...${\mathrm{}}^{\mathrm{}}$

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 ...

Due to the rapid enhancement of technology, cloud data is increasing rapidly which contains individuals’ sensitive information such as medical diagnostics reports. While extracting knowledge from those sensitive data, both privacy of individuals’ ...

This paper aims to investigate the competencies that citizens should hold to protect own information privacy and personal data. Based on conceptual analysis, this study examines theoretical frameworks on competency models (e.g., the Iceberg ...

• Validation of a new distributive equity scale for free data-driven services.
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Individuals are supposed to perform a privacy risk-benefit analysis when deciding to transact with a free data-driven service provider. Building on equity theory, this article suggests that users incorporate the net value for providers ...

To understand the underlying process of users’ information disclosure decisions, scholars often use either the privacy calculus framework or refer to heuristic shortcuts. It is unclear whether the decision process varies by age. Therefore, using these ...

Despite individuals expressing concerns for the privacy of their personal information, they act contrarily by disclosing their personal information in e-commerce transactions. This phenomenon of contradictory privacy-related decisions ...

When using digital technologies, various data traces are left behind for collection, storage and analysis. Innovative solutions for information systems are needed that mitigate privacy risks and foster information privacy. One mechanism to achieve ...

The present research explored to what extent user engagement in proactive recommendation scenarios is influenced by the accuracy of recommendations, concerns with information privacy, and trait personality. We hypothesized that people’s self-...

The Privacy Paradox is an information privacy behavioral phenomenon wherein individuals are aware that the personally identifiable information (PII) they disclose in an online transaction may be compromised, yet disclose it nonetheless. One ...

As firms rely increasingly on “big data” to segment and target current and potential customers, the challenge of data falsification—individuals providing incorrect personal data in response to requests—is becoming a significant ...

• An empirically derived cartography of the perceived information sensitivity of 40 different data types.

With the ever-increasing collection of user data, online privacy becomes an urgent matter for users and research across borders. The perception of information sensitivity is central to privacy attitudes and behaviors in different usage ...

Online tracking is the key enabling technology of modern online advertising. In the recently established model of real-time bidding (RTB), the web pages tracked by ad platforms are shared with advertising agencies (also called DSPs), ...

• We reveal an abuse by ad agencies whereby user-tracking data is acquired at no cost.

• This paper examines the effect of the PETs implementation on employees’ work processes and their perception toward the implementation.

With increasing consumer awareness towards information privacy and government-enforced regulations on data protection, organizations are implementing Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) to provide systematic protection on consumers’ ...

The world is going to be more and more digital with effective utilization of information and communication technologies in government services to provide services to their citizens. In developing countries, public cloud is now considered a ...

This paper investigates how Facebook users perceive information privacy against the benefits of being a member. Inspired by the privacy calculus model, we created a Norwegian online survey (n=188) in spring 2018 and offer the following insights: ...