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    The Privacy Paradox - investigating people's attitude towards privacy in a time of COVID-19

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    The advent of digital technologies used as a mechanism to deal with the Covid-19 global pandemic, has raised serious concerns around privacy and security issues. Despite these concerns and the potential risk of data misuse, including third party use, countries around the world have pushed the use and proliferation of contact-tracing applications. However, the success of these contact-tracing applications relies on their adoption and use. A well known phenomenon referred to as privacy paradox is defined as the discrepancy between the expressed privacy concern and the actual behaviour of users when it comes to protect their privacy. In this context, this paper presents a study investigating the privacy paradox in the context of a global pandemic. A national survey has been conducted and the data is analysed to examine people's privacy risk perception. The results show inconsistencies between people's privacy concerns and their actual behaviour that is reflected in their attitude shift of sharing their mobile data during a global pandemic. The study also compiles a list of recommendations for policymakers

    Boundary management practices in youth work relationships between young people and practitioners on online social network sites

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    A report published by the National Youth Agency (NYA) in England during 2008 found that the majority of social network site on-line interaction between youth work practitioners and young people took place 'under the radar'. 'Under the radar' or 'unsanctioned', in this context was defined as outside the relevant guidance and without the line manager's agreement. My research set out to find why and how this is taking place, and the meaning attached to this practice to the different role players. As part of my qualitative research I interviewed twenty-one youth work practitioners (paid and voluntary) from a variety of backgrounds and fourteen young people over the age of 16, who are accessing universal youth work. Youth work practitioners and young people differ in their reasons for wanting to 'friend' each other on social media and what this signifies; is it a professional or personal relationship or a hybrid of the two? Boundaries and expectations of the 'audience' become blurred and perforated. Combined with the ever-changing nature of the technology itself, maintaining or developing professional relationships through social network sites becomes challenging. This article explores the boundary management techniques used by young people and practitioners in online social network sites to maintain developed relationships. The study uncovered limited dissemination of existing policies which resulted in diverse practice. Most unsanctioned connections took place with the best intentions and in order to support rather than with malicious inten

    The Importance of Transparency and Willingness to Share Personal Information

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    This study investigates the extent to which individuals are willing to share their sensitive personal information with companies. The study examines whether skepticism can influence willingness to share information. Additionally, it seeks to determine whether transparency can moderate the relationship between skepticism and willingness to share and whether 1) companies perceived motives, 2) individual’s prior privacy violations, 3) individuals’ propensity to take risks, and 4) individuals self-efficacy act as antecedents of skepticism. Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression is used to examine the relationships between all the factors. The findings indicate that skepticism does have a negative impact on willingness to share personal information and that transparency can reduce skepticis

    Vulnerable Users’ Perceptions of Transport Technologies

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    As the global population continues to grow, age and urbanize, it is vital to provide accessible transport so that neither ageing nor disability constitute barriers to social inclusion. While technology can enhance urban access, there is a need to study the ways by which transport technologies - real-time information, pedestrian navigation, surveillance, and road pricing - could be more effectively adopted by users. The reason for this is that some people, and particularly vulnerable populations, are still likely to reluctantly use (or even avoid using) technologies perceived as 'unknown' and 'complicated'. Based on evidence from British and Swedish case studies on older people's perceptions of the aforementioned transport technologies, as well as on a Swedish case study of visually impaired people's perceptions, this article makes the case that technology is only one tool in a complex socio-technical system, and one which brings challenges. The authors also suggest that although vulnerable populations are not homogeneous when expressing attitudes towards transport technologies, their assessment criteria tend to be 'pro-social' as they usually consider that the societal benefits outweigh the personal benefits. Emphasising aspects linked to the technologies' pro-social potential or relevance to the individual user could increase acceptance

    Public Opinions of Unmanned Aerial Technologies in 2014 to 2019: A Technical and Descriptive Report

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    The primary purpose of this report is to provide a descriptive and technical summary of the results from similar surveys administered in fall 2014 (n = 576), 2015 (n = 301), 2016 (ns = 1946 and 2089), and 2018 (n = 1050) and summer 2019 (n = 1300). In order to explore a variety of factors that may impact public perceptions of unmanned aerial technologies (UATs), we conducted survey experiments over time. These experiments randomly varied the terminology (drone, aerial robot, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), unmanned aerial system (UAS)) used to describe the technology, the purposes of the technology (for economic, environmental, or security goals), the actors (public or private) using the technology, the technology’s autonomy (fully autonomous, partially autonomous, no autonomy), and the framing (promotion or prevention) used to describe the technology’s purpose. Initially, samples were recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, required to be Americans, and paid a small amount for participation. In 2016 we also examined a nationally representative samples recruited from Qualtrics panels. After 2016 we only used nationally representative samples from Qualtrics. Major findings are reported along with details regarding the research methods and analyses

    Privacy concerns in smart cities

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    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 dimensions in research about people's concerns about privacy: one dimensions represents that people perceive particular data as more personal and sensitive than others, the other dimension represents that people's privacy concerns differ according to the purpose for which data is collected, with the contrast between service and surveillance purposes most paramount. These two dimensions produce a 2 × 2 framework that hypothesizes which technologies and data-applications in smart cities are likely to raise people's privacy concerns, distinguishing between raising hardly any concern (impersonal data, service purpose), to raising controversy (personal data, surveillance purpose). Specific examples from the city of Rotterdam are used to further explore and illustrate the academic and practical usefulness of the framework. It is argued that the general hypothesis of the framework offers clear directions for further empirical research and theory building about privacy concerns in smart cities, and that it provides a sensitizing instrument for local governments to identify the absence, presence, or emergence of privacy concerns among their citizens

    Sosyal medyadaki mahremiyet algısının sosyal medya kullanımına yönelik tutuma etkisi

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    Social media applications designed for the purposes such as establishing and maintaining social relationships between people have become an indispensable element of our daily life. Social media users spend a considerable part of their time using these applications. The abundance of personal information shared on social media and the way this information is used by social media companies cause people to have concerns about their privacy. This study aims to measure the effects of people's concerns and perceptions of their privacy on their attitudes towards the use of social media applications. The data required for the research were collected through the online questionnaire prepared with the participation of 409 people. Explanatory factor analyzes and confirmatory factor analyzes were performed with the data obtained to verify the research model and test the hypotheses, and the structural equation model was used to test the research model. According to the findings of the research, it was determined that privacy concerns affected trust, attitude towards using social media, and behavioral intention. It has also been found that the attitude towards using social media affects behavioral intention. In addition, our findings show that, contrary to the studies in the literature, trust does not affect behavioral intention.İnsanlar arasında sosyal ilişkiler kurma ve devam ettirme gibi amaçlara yönelik olarak tasarlanan sosyal medya uygulamaları, günlük yaşantımızın vazgeçilmez bir unsuru haline gelmiştir. Sosyal medya kullanıcıları zamanlarının kayda değer bir kısmını bu uygulamaları kullanarak geçirmektedirler. Sosyal medyada paylaşılan kişisel bilgilerin çokluğu ve bu bilgilerin sosyal medya şirketlerince kullanım biçimleri, insanlarda mahremiyetlerine ilişkin kaygılar ortaya çıkmasına neden olmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, insanların mahremiyetlerine ilişkin kaygılarının ve algılarının sosyal medya uygulamaları kullanımına yönelik tutumları üzerindeki etkilerini ölçmektir. Araştırma için gerekli veriler, hazırlanan çevrimiçi anket formu aracılığıyla ve 409 kişinin katılımıyla toplanmıştır. Elde edilen verilerle, araştırma modelinin doğrulanması ve hipotezlerin test edilmesi amacıyla açıklayıcı faktör analizleri ve doğrulayıcı faktör analizleri yapılmış, araştırma modelinin test edilmesi amacıyla da yapısal eşitlik modeli kullanılmıştır. Araştırma bulgularına göre, mahremiyet kaygısının güven, sosyal medyayı kullanmaya yönelik tutum ve davranışsal niyet üzerinde etkisinin olduğu belirlenmiştir. Sosyal medyayı kullanmaya yönelik tutumun davranışsal niyet üzerinde etkili olduğu da tespit edilmiştir. Ayrıca bulgularımız literatürdeki çalışmaların aksine güvenin davranışsal niyet üzerinde etkisinin olmadığını göstermektedir

    Human experience in the natural and built environment : implications for research policy and practice

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    22nd IAPS conference. Edited book of abstracts. 427 pp. University of Strathclyde, Sheffield and West of Scotland Publication. ISBN: 978-0-94-764988-3
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