leaving one’s parental home disrupts place attachment, described as the affective bond or link between one individual and a specific place and/or the people living in that place. in other words, because students move away from their parents, their friend and their hometown, their bonds with these people and their hometown are disrupted. although moving disrupts place attachment to their hometow...

Privacy is one of the essential needs of the human being. And the balance between privacy and social interactions between individuals are influenced by the architectural elements enriched by cultural values of each society which would lead to a sense of satisfaction in environment as well. The scope of environmental psychology is on the relationship between human and the his/ her environments; ...

While using modern applications, personal digital data is spread over hundreds of servers all around the world and users have very poor control over these data. To tackle this issue, based on the semantic Web, we are developing a framework, named Privacy-Lookout, to allow people to be on the lookout for transgressions of their personal data privacy. Concretely, we propose to construct a persona...

The protection of privacy is an increasing concern in today’s global infrastructure. One of the most important privacy protection principles states that personal information collected for one purpose may not be used for any other purpose without the specific informed consent of the person it concerns. Although users provide personal information for use in one specific context, they often have n...

This article speculates on the future of privacy and electronic identities on the Internet. Based on a short review of security models and the development of privacy-enhancing technology, privacy and electronic identities will be discussed as parts of a larger context—an ecosystem of personal information and electronic identities. The article argues for an ecosystem view of personal information...

Privacy codes of practice developed in the 1980s in response to the concerns about the introduction of computerized databases, automated personal information processing systems, and easy transmission of personal information across national and international boundaries. The current data-practice guidelines, laws, and model-codes have been modeled based on these early codes. Starting from the ear...

Information privacy and personal data in information systems are referred to as the ‘new oil’ of the 21st century. The mass adoption of smart mobile devices, sensor-enabled smart IoT-devices, and mobile applications provide virtually endless possibilities of gathering users’ personal information. Previous research suggests that users attribute very little monetary value to their information pri...

We present a conceptual model of everyday privacy in ubiquitous computing environments, based on the works of Lessig and Adams. By everyday privacy, we mean the enduser’s ongoing exposure to and control over personal information collection. The model accounts for the influence of societal-scale forces, contextual factors, and subjective perception on end-user privacy. We identify notice and con...

Social interaction and data integration in the digital society can affect the control that individuals have on their privacy. Social networking sites can access data from other services, including user contact lists where nonusers are listed too. Although most research on online privacy has focused on inference of personal information of users, this data integration poses the question of whethe...

The privacy of personal information is an important issue affecting the confidence of internet users. The widespread adoption of online social networks and access to these platforms using mobile devices has encouraged developers to make the systems and interfaces acceptable to users who seek privacy. The aim of this study is to test a wizard that allows users to control the sharing of personal ...