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Information technology and privacy: conceptual muddles or privacy vacuums?

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Martin, Kirsten
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Within a given conversation or information exchange, do privacy expectations change based on the technology used? Firms regularly require users, customers, and employees to shift existing relationships onto new information technology, yet little is known as about how technology impacts established privacy expectations and norms. Coworkers are asked to use new information technology, users of gmail are asked to use GoogleBuzz, patients and doctors are asked to record health records online, etc. Understanding how privacy expectations change, if at all, and the mechanisms by which such a variance is produced will help organizations make such transitions. This paper examines whether and how privacy expectations change based on the technological platform of an information exchange. The results suggest that privacy expectations are significantly distinct when the information exchange is located on a novel technology as compared to a more established technology. Furthermore, this difference is best explained when modeled by a shift in privacy expectations rather than fully technology-specific privacy norms. These results suggest that privacy expectations online are connected to privacy offline with a different base privacy expectation. Surprisingly, out of the five locations tested, respondents consistently assign information on email the greatest privacy protection. In addition, while undergraduate students differ from non-undergraduates when assessing a social networking site, no difference is found when judging an exchange on email. In sum, the findings suggest that novel technology may introduce temporary conceptual muddles rather than permanent privacy vacuums. The results reported here challenge conventional views about how privacy expectations differ online versus offline. Traditionally, management scholarship examines privacy online or with a specific new technology platform in isolation and without reference to the same information exchange offline. However, in the present study, individuals appear to have a shift in their privacy expectations but retain similar factors and their relative importance—the privacy equation by which they form judgments—across technologies. These findings suggest that privacy scholarship should make use of existing privacy norms within contexts when analyzing and studying privacy in a new technological platform.
Starting Page	267
Ending Page	284
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13881957
Journal	Ethics and Information Technology
Volume Number	14
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728439
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-09-15
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Contextual integrity Privacy Business ethics Information technology Email Facebook Innovation/Technology Management Ethics Management of Computing and Information Systems Library Science User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Library and Information Sciences Computer Science Applications

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