Privacy policies and practices in Portuguese local e-government

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gonçalo Paiva Dias ◽  
Hélder Gomes ◽  
André Zúquete
Keyword(s):  
Privacy Policies ◽  
Policies And Practices

Privacy policies and practices

1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (12) ◽  
pp. 104-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Jeff Smith
Keyword(s):  
Privacy Policies ◽  
Policies And Practices

Privacy Control and Assurance

2009 ◽  
pp. 165-189
Author(s):  
Alan Rea ◽  
Kuanchin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Privacy Policies ◽  
User Interactions ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Targeted Marketing ◽  
Web Surfing ◽  
Policies And Practices

Protecting personal information while Web surfing has become a struggle. This is especially the case when transactions require a modicum of trust to be successfully completed. E-businesses argue that they need personal information so they can create viable data to tailor user interactions and provide targeted marketing. However; users are wary of providing personal information because they lack trust in e-businesses’ personal information policies and practices. E-businesses have attempted to mitigate user apprehension and build a relationship base in B2C transactions to facilitate the sharing of personal information. Some efforts have been successful. This chapter presents survey results that suggest a relationship between gender and how users control personal information. The findings suggest that e-businesses should modify information and privacy policies to increase information and transactional exchanges.

Privacy policies and practices in Portuguese local e-government

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
André Zúquete ◽  
Gonçalo Paiva Dias ◽  
Hélder Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Privacy Policies ◽  
Policies And Practices

“As We Grow, It Will Become a Priority”: American Mobile Start-Ups’ Privacy Practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (10) ◽  
pp. 1338-1355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhong Chen ◽  
Gejun Huang ◽  
Joshua Miller ◽  
Kye-Hyoung Lee ◽  
Daniel Mauro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Privacy Management ◽  
Privacy Policies ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Policies And Practices

Privacy has become a crucial issue of the digital age, with significant social, political, and economic ramifications. A growing body of literature has dedicated to the patterns, causes, and consequences of individuals’ privacy concerns, skills, and practices. Advancing a producer’s perspective, this research draws on in-depth interviews with 45 tech entrepreneurs to examine privacy practices of mobile start-ups in the United States. Results reveal (a) factors that contribute to the problematic status of privacy issues and (b) whether and how entrepreneurs leverage privacy management as a competitive advantage. Results show that data are widely seen by entrepreneurs as a potentially profitable asset. Privacy practices are networked and thus pose challenges for privacy management as different parties may have different privacy practices. Fast-moving technologies often leave government regulations behind, making them look outdated or irrelevant to many entrepreneurs. For most start-ups not specialized in identity, privacy, or anonymity service, privacy is neither a core business strategy nor a top concern. Only a few mobile ventures have leveraged privacy management as a competitive advantage and designed their products from the ground up concerned about privacy. Most entrepreneurs adopt a building-the-plane-while-flying-it approach: as business grows, privacy policies and practices would evolve. Many entrepreneurs fail to recognize the significance of privacy policies and practices as they lack the awareness, bandwidth, and capacity. Growth and monetization pressures from investors are perceived as more urgent and important than privacy and security issues. Offering a richer account of the power structure that shapes mobile entrepreneurs’ privacy practices and their challenges of managing privacy in a data-driven digital economy, our work advances the existing literature dominated by stories of the individual consumers.

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