In the U.S., there is no comprehensive national law regulating the collection and use of personal information. As a response to the high level of privacy concerns among U.S. citizens and the currently limited regulations, states have enacted their own privacy laws over and above the principles of Fair Information Practices (FIP). In this exploratory study, we draw upon the privacy literature an...

U.S. Government Web sites are rapidly increasing the services they offer, but users express concerns about their personal privacy protection. To earn user’s trust, these sites must show that personal data is protected, and the sites contain explicit privacy policies. This research studied privacy policy protection of 50 U.S. Senate sites and found that few had comprehensive elements of privacy ...

In the recent years, social networks (SN) are now employed for communication and networking, socializing, marketing, as well as one’s daily life. Billions of people in the world are connected though various SN platforms and applications, which results in generating massive amount of data online. This includes personal data or Personally Identifiable Information (PII). While more and more data a...

Even though information privacy literature has been studying the negative influence of privacy concerns on personal information disclosure, the issue is more complex because often the actual behavior of the individual does not reflect the influence. However, limited explanations have been directed toward examining the contradictory phenomenon between privacy concerns and various subsequent beha...

The study has two purposes: (1) to investigate the impact of awareness and control on Social Network Sites (SNSs) users’ information privacy concerns, and (2) to understand how information privacy concerns and the notion of trust shape users’ risk perceptions. The study collects data using survey methodology. A total of 356 SNS users are analyzed via partial least squares. Users regard awarenes...

In information privacy literature, limited attention was paid to the studies on the effects of a person’s privacy disposition on his/her privacy concerns. This relationship is of critical importance to privacy research, as privacy disposition is believed to be an important antecedent of privacy perceptions. In this study, a research model is developed to examine the impacts of a person’s privac...

Article history: Received 28 October 2015 Received in revised form 8 June 2016 Accepted 9 June 2016 Available online xxxx In this paper a framework is constructed to hypothesize if and how smart city technologies and urban big data produce privacy concerns among the people in these cities (as inhabitants, workers, visitors, and otherwise). The framework is built on the basis of two recurring di...

This paper concerns personal privacy and privacy protection in context-aware ubiquitous computing environments. It proposes a privacy ontology solution to facilitate automated processes in privacy control. The development of the privacy ontology is an integrated part of our ongoing effort towards a privacy-respecting middleware solution for context-aware systems.

Location-based services (LBS), enabled by advances in mobile and positioning technologies, have afforded users with a pervasive flexibility to be uniquely addressable and to access network and services on-the-move. However, because LBS could also associate the lifestyle habits, behaviors, and movements with a consumer’s personal identity, privacy concerns are particularly salient for LBS. Drawi...

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