Cross-Cultural Similarity and Differences in Parents “Sharenting” Using Online Social Media from Information Privacy Perspective: The Case of Snapchat

Online communication using social networks represents a major risk for users in terms of information privacy. While the trend for social network use becomes more popular, it has already created new social risks in the form of information overuse such as sharenting. The term “sharenting” denotes the correlation between sharing and parenting and represents the overuse of parents’ efforts in distributing digital content about their children. To date, sharenting was not actively explored within the information research context and its risks to the user privacy, as well as demonstration of sharenting in various cultures. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to provide a proposal for the cross-cultural study of sharenting from a privacy perspective using the context of the social network Snapchat

Dumping the Closet Skeletons Online: Exploring the Guilty Information Disclosure Behavior on Social Media

Privacy issues on social media are becoming an increasing area of concern. Paradoxically, some netizens are actively divulging their privacy online. Noticeably, some information is specifically guilt-related, though confession online is considered irrational. This preliminary study strives to understand this guilty information disclosure behavior through a mixed-approach. Analyzing posts and comments in a confession forum on Reddit, we find that sex-related and recreation-related topics prevail. Our qualitative investigation produces a thematic model with 71 codes, 17 concepts, 4 frames, 3 categories, and 9 relationships, capturing the intents, content, influencers of this behavior, and the interactions among users. Our contribution relies on the investigation of this peculiar behavior to better understand people’s privacy behavior. Also, we render a sophisticated framework around guilt-inducing behaviors useful for future work. We also suggest it as a mixture of conformity and counter-conformity, a modern “technology of self” and a variant of Adaptive Cognitive Theory

Regulate Privacy in SNS: Privacy Control on the Self-Ego Boundary and Dyadic-Boundary

The feeling of lacking of privacy has become a critical inhibitor of SNS’s development. To investigate how privacy concerns in SNS influence self-disclosure behavior, this study attempts to understand individuals’ privacy regulation strategy based on two distinct boundaries. Specifically, we propose that role conflict and interpersonal distrust positively influence privacy concerns, and perceived communication privacy control and SNS type moderating these two relationships respectively. The ultimate goal of this study is to provide useful guidelines for SNS practitioners to better design the functions that meet users’ needs for privacy control

Pride and Privacy: A Practical Guide for Privacy Programming for Older Adults in Public Libraries

This informational guide has been created to assist public libraries in the creation of program plans to teach older adults (60 and above) best practices when interacting with technology. It aims to facilitate privacy programming at public libraries that is more in line with the digital behaviours of older adults. The guide will highlight some of the ways that older adults interact with digital information and technology as well as how they are vulnerable using these technologies. It will include information regarding older adults’ own perceptions of their privacy online and their privacy behaviours. Some current technological programs for older adults will be examined before recommendations for creating library programs and teaching technological literacy are outlined

A Discrepancy between Objective and Perceived Privacy Risks? Understanding Messaging Service’s Discontinuance Usage

The number of users discontinuing messaging services due to perceived privacy risks has grown rapidly in recent months. Still, research on privacy risks in this context has not received much attention. We aim to examine the impact of objective and perceived privacy risks on discontinuance usage. To determine the level of objective privacy risks, we analyze the privacy policy of the messaging service WhatsApp. So far, we identify aggregation, secondary use, identification, and increased accessibility to be the most prevalent objective risks. We propose a longitudinal design to capture individuals’ perceived privacy risks and test the influence of both risk dimensions on the discontinued use of messaging services. We contribute to literature by disentangling the interplay of objective and perceived privacy risks on discontinuance

Effects of Impulse and Habit on Privacy Disclosure in Social Networking Sites: Moderating Role of Privacy Self-Efficacy

Prior research on privacy disclosure primarily focuses on conscious factors leading to intentional disclosure. In this study, we identify two unconscious factors, i.e., the habit of self- disclosure and the impulse of self-disclosure, which lead to users’ privacy disclosure behavior in social networking sites (SNS). We contribute to the existent literature by investigating the effects of these two factors on privacy disclosure behavior in SNS and examining a contingent factor for the effects of these two unconscious factors. Our results reveal that both habit and impulse have significant effects on privacy disclosure in SNS. The effects of habit and impulse are moderated by users’ privacy self-efficacy. Particularly, privacy self-efficacy weakens the effects of impulse on self-disclosure but strengthens the effect of habit on self-disclosure

Towards an Integrative Understanding of Privacy Nudging – Systematic Review and Research Agenda

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 this are privacy nudges. Nudges are a concept from behavioural economics to influence individual’s decisions. This paper focusses on building an integrative understanding of privacy nudging. Specifically, we conceptualize the constituting characteristics of privacy nudges by conducting a systematic literature review to cover the current state of knowledge in the interdisciplinary privacy nudge literature stream. We structure the intrapersonal factors that determine effectiveness for each privacy nudge in a morphological box and conceptualize on this basis current research coverage as well as demand for future research. Finally, we develop theoretical propositions contributing to the discussion of how to study and design effective privacy nudges that can pave the way for more privacy sensitive IT systems

Rational ignorance: A privacy pre-calculus

The role of rationality in information privacy intention and behavior is a topic of long and enduring interest. Some popular privacy models and concepts, such as privacy calculus and the privacy paradox, among others, use rationality as their basis. However, in this paper, we present the concept of rational ignorance, which may help advance conversations about the role of rationality in privacy decision-making and behavior. Rational ignorance, in essence, states that when individuals believe that the costs of seeking and acquiring information exceed the benefits of that information, they will not acquire the information and will choose to remain ignorant. We describe rational ignorance and its genesis in political economics and discuss how rational ignorance may serve as a privacy pre-calculus. We also outline several avenues for future research