A Psychometric Scale to Measure Individuals’ Value of Other People’s Privacy (VOPP)

Researchers invested enormous eforts to understand and mitigate the concerns of users as technologies collect their private data. However, users often undermine other people’s privacy when, e.g., posting other people’s photos online, granting mobile applications to access contacts, or using technologies that continuously sense the surrounding. Research to understand technology adoption and behaviors related to collecting and sharing data about non-users has been severely lacking. An essential step to progress in this direction is to identify and quantify factors that afect technology’s use. Toward this goal, we propose and validate a psychometric scale to measure how much an individual values other people’s privacy. We theoretically grounded the appropriateness and relevance of the construct and empirically demonstrated the scale’s internal consistency and validity. This scale will advance the feld by enabling researchers to predict behaviors, design adaptive privacy-enhancing technologies, and develop interventions to raise awareness and mitigate privacy risks

Developing a Psychometric Scale to Measure One’s Valuation of Other People’s Privacy

Researchers invested tremendous efforts in understanding and measuring people’s perceptions, concerns, attitudes, and behaviors related to privacy risks from data gathering by online platforms, mobile devices, and other technologies. However, technology users often risk other people’s privacy by sharing their data actively (e.g., posting photos taken at public places online) or passively (e.g., granting mobile apps to access stored contacts). Moreover, technologies that continuously sense the environment and record behaviors and activities of everyone around them (e.g., smart assistants) are becoming pervasive. Thus, an instrument to quantify how much one values other people’s privacy is essential to understand technology adoption, attitudes and behaviors related to collecting and sharing data about non-users, inform the design of adaptive privacy enhancing technologies, and developing personalized technological or behavioral interventions to raise awareness and mitigate privacy risks. This abstract details a preliminary study towards developing such as scale. We report the methods of generating the initial item pool and findings from a pilot survey. We hope to get feedback from the community to improve the research design during the poster presentation

Atheisms and the purification of faith

Philosophers of religion have distinguished between ‘negative’ and ‘positive’ atheism. This article considers further conceptions of atheism, especially the idea that atheism can facilitate a faith in God purified of idolatrous assumptions. After introducing Bultmann’s contention that a ‘conscious atheist’ can find something transcendent in the world, this contention is interpreted through reflection on Ricoeur’s claim that the atheisms of Nietzsche and Freud serve to mediate a transition to a purified faith – a faith involving heightened receptivity to agapeic love. The troubling question of what differentiates atheism from belief in God is then discussed in the light of Simone Weil’s meditations on God’s secret presence

Anleitung zur diätetischen Krankenpflege mit besonderer Rücksicht auf das homöopathische Heilverfahren : für Laien : nebst einer kurzen Uebersicht über die homöopatische Heilmethode

von Dr. med. Weil, practischer homöopathischer Arzt in Berli