As the Internet grows in importance, concerns about online privacy have arisen. We describe the development and validation of three short Internet-administered scales measuring privacy related attitudes ('Privacy Concern') and behaviors ('General Caution' and 'Technical Protection'). Internet Privacy Scales 1 In Press: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology UNCOR...

People have been using Social Network Sites (SNS) to communicate and make friends through online. Although SNS has been benefited its users in many ways, information privacy seemed to be overlooked. This study proposes a framework to examine users’ protective behaviour associated with information disclosure in SNS. The proposed framework was derived based on the Protection Motivation Theory and...

The study of information privacy in e-commerce is still in its infancy. Current studies have mainly focused on consumers’ general concern for privacy. They have largely ignored situational factors (such as emotions, website design, etc) and the potential influence of situational factors in shaping Internet users’ perception about the level of privacy (or privacy belief) ensured by online vendor...

The contradiction between the stated preferences of social media users toward privacy and actual privacy behaviors has suggested a willingness to trade privacy regulation for social goals. This study employs data from a survey of 361 social media users, which collected data on privacy attitudes, online privacy strategies and behaviors, and the uses and gratifications that social media experienc...

Privacy concerns and practices, especially those dealing with the acquisition and use of consumer personal information by corporations, are at the forefront of business and social issues associated with the information age. This research examines the privacy policies of large U.S. companies to assess the substance and quality of their stated information practices. Six factors are identified tha...

Privacy remains among the toughest challenges for the consumer-facing Internet of Things (IoT). Privacy-by-Design (PbD) is the most recent attempt to address it. Thereby, privacy goals become part of the technical specification and are resolved directly in the development process. This contemplation opposes existing approaches that retrofit protection measures as an afterthought, often even aft...

The smart meter (SM) privacy problem is addressed together with the cost of energy for the consumer. It is assumed that a storage device, e.g., an electrical battery, is available to the consumer, which can be utilized both to achieve privacy and to reduce the energy cost by modifying the energy consumption profile. Privacy is measured via the squared-error distortion between the SM readings, w...