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Citizen's Attitudes about Privacy While Accessing Government Websites: Results of an Online Study
This paper reports the results of an investigation on citizens' attitudes and concerns regarding privacy and security on the Web, in general, and on the government websites they may visit, in particular. We examine to what extent those concerns can be alleviated by using a Secure Private Portal that protects citizen's personally identifying information when accessing government websites. The research project had two main goals: (a) to develop a comprehensive psychological instrument to assess citizens' attitudes and concerns regarding privacy and security on the Web; (b) to test the impact a Secure Private Portal may have on those concerns and on the way citizens use Government Websites. In order to accomplish these goals researchers from Columbia Business School and from Columbia departments of Computer Science and Psychology, developed and ran a web based survey. Participants were recruited using online advertising through Google.com and provided their responses on the web. Early analyses of the results indicate a very high level of citizens' concerns regarding privacy and security of their personal data. Some of the concerns can appropriately be addressed only by fundamental policy changes. Furthermore, the results suggest that citizens perceive those sites which use secure portals as much safer and are more likely to visit them again. The results may indicate a new strategy for the presentation and design of government websites
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The Structure of the Verb Lexicon: Evidence from a Structural Alignment Approach to Similarity
Two different views of the organization of verbs in the mental lexicon have been formulated in recent years: the matrix view and the cluster view. The matrix view suggests that a verb shares as many features with verbs from other clusters as it shares with verbs from its own cluster. Thus, instead of being organized, like concrete nouns into well-defined hierarchies, verbs in the mental lexicon form a matrix like structure. While admitting differences between the organization of verb and noun lexicons, the cluster view claims that verbs form hierarchically organized clusters that resemble noun hierarchies in many ways. We report one study that extends research on similarity of nouns to verbs in order to shed light on these accounts. Subjects were presented with pairs of verbs and asked to list their commonalities or differences. The obtained patterns of commonalities, alignable and nonalignable differences are similar to the patterns obtained for hierarchies of nouns and are consistent with the cluster view of verb organization
Citizen's Attitudes about Privacy While Accessing Government Websites:
This paper reports the results of an investigation on citizens' attitudes and concerns regarding privacy and security on the Web, in general, and on the government websites they may visit, in particular. We examine to what extent those concerns can be alleviated by using a Secure Private Portal that protects citizen's personally identifying information when accessing government websites. The research project had two main goals: (a) to develop a comprehensive psychological instrument to assess citizens' attitudes and concerns regarding privacy and security on the Web; (b) to test the impact a Secure Private Portal may have on those concerns and on the way citizens use Government Websites. In order to accomplish these goals researchers from Columbia Business School and from Columbia departments of Computer Science and Psychology, developed and ran a web-based survey. Participants were recruited using online advertising through Google.com and provided their responses on the web. Early analyses of the results indicate a very high level of citizens' concerns regarding privacy and security of their personal data. Some of the concerns can appropriately be addressed only by fundamental policy changes. Furthermore, the results suggest that citizens perceive those sites which use secure portals as much safer and are more likely to visit them again. The results may indicate a new strategy for the presentation and design of government websites
Citizen's Attitudes about Privacy While Accessing Government and Private
This paper reports the results of an investigation on citizens' attitudes and concerns regarding privacy and security on the Web, in general, and on the government websites they may visit, in particular. We examine to what extent those concerns can be alleviated by using a Secure Private Portal that protects citizen's personally identifying information when accessing government websites. The research project had two main goals: (a) to develop a comprehensive psychological instrument to assess citizens' attitudes and concerns regarding privacy and security on the Web; (b) to test the impact a Secure Private Portal may have on those concerns and on the way citizens use Government Websites. In order to accomplish these goals researchers from Columbia Business School and from Columbia departments of Computer Science and Psychology, developed and ran a web-based survey. Participants were recruited using online advertising through Google.com and provided their responses on the web. Early analyses of the results indicate a very high level of citizens' concerns regarding privacy and security of their personal data. Some of the concerns can appropriately be addressed only by fundamental policy changes. Furthermore, the results suggest that citizens perceive those sites which use secure portals as much safer and are more likely to visit them again. The results may indicate a new strategy for the presentation and design of government websites