Prior Negative Experience, Online Privacy Concerns and Intent to Disclose Personal Information in Chinese Social Media

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Hongwei “Chris” Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Online Privacy ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Privacy Concerns

A paper survey of 489 Chinese college students was conducted in spring, 2012 to test a conceptual model of online information disclosure in social media. It shows that young Chinese SNS users' prior negative experience of online disclosure significantly increased their online privacy concerns and their perceived risk. Their online privacy concerns undermined their trust of online companies, marketers and laws to protect privacy and elevated their perceived risk. Their trust strongly predicted their intent to disclose the lifestyle and sensitive information. Their online privacy concerns only inhibited them from disclosing sensitive information in social media. However, their prior negative experience did not directly predict their intent of self-disclosure on SNS. Implications for academia and industry are discussed.

Prior Negative Experience, Online Privacy Concerns and Intent to Disclose Personal Information in Chinese Social Media

2015 ◽  
pp. 1053-1075
Author(s):  
Hongwei “Chris” Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Online Privacy ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Privacy Concerns

A paper survey of 489 Chinese college students was conducted in spring, 2012 to test a conceptual model of online information disclosure in social media. It shows that young Chinese SNS users' prior negative experience of online disclosure significantly increased their online privacy concerns and their perceived risk. Their online privacy concerns undermined their trust of online companies, marketers and laws to protect privacy and elevated their perceived risk. Their trust strongly predicted their intent to disclose the lifestyle and sensitive information. Their online privacy concerns only inhibited them from disclosing sensitive information in social media. However, their prior negative experience did not directly predict their intent of self-disclosure on SNS. Implications for academia and industry are discussed.

scholarly journals Transformative or Not? How Privacy Violation Experiences Influence Online Privacy Concerns and Online Information Disclosure

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp K Masur ◽  
Sabine Trepte
Keyword(s):  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Online Privacy ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Privacy Violation

Abstract Previous research has shown that people seldom experience privacy violations while using the Internet, such as unwanted and unknown sharing of personal information, credit card fraud, or identity theft. With this study, we ask whether individuals’ online privacy concerns increase and online information disclosure decreases if they experience such a worst-case scenario. Using representative data from a five-wave panel study (n = 745), we found that people who generally experience more privacy violations also have stronger privacy concerns (between-person differences). However, people who experienced more privacy violations than usual in the last 6 months were only slightly more concerned afterward and did not change their disclosure behavior afterward (within-person effects). The need for privacy moderated these processes. We untangle under which circumstances such experiences may be transformative, and discuss practical and conceptual consequences of how experiences translate into concerns, but not necessarily behaviors.

scholarly journals Research on Influencing Factors of Personal Information Disclosure Intention of Social Media in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-207
Author(s):  
Anrong Fan ◽  
Qiao Wu ◽  
Xiaofei Yan ◽  
Xiaotong Lu ◽  
Yue Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Privacy Protection ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
User Privacy

AbstractThe disclosure of personal information by users is very important for social media, in order to balance privacy protection and personalized service. This article probes into the factors influencing users’ disclosure intention. Based on the privacy calculus theory and theory of planned behavior, the study constructs an influencing factor model of social media personal information disclosure intention. Then an extensive survey of social media users is conducted through questionnaire, and the hypothetical model is verified using structural equation model, and finally the relationship between various influencing factors and personal information disclosure intentions is obtained. The results show that the perceived benefits and subjective norm are related to personal information disclosure intentions, and privacy view is associated with perceived risk. Finally, the study provides new ideas for social media services and user privacy protection, such as creating a secure social media environment, increasing valuable social services, reducing users’ risk perception and making information processing open and transparent.

scholarly journals Do privacy concerns determine online information disclosure? The case of internet addiction

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nik Thompson ◽  
Atif Ahmad ◽  
Sean Maynard
Keyword(s):  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Privacy Calculus ◽  
The Impact

Purpose It is a widely held belief that users make a rational cost-benefit decision when choosing whether to disclose information online. Yet, in the privacy context, the evidence is far from conclusive suggesting that strong and as-yet unmeasured influences on behaviour may exist. This paper aims to demonstrate one such link – the effect of internet addiction on information disclosure. Design/methodology/approach Data from 216 Web users was collected regarding their perceptions on privacy and information disclosure intentions as well as avoidance behaviour, an element of internet addiction. Using a research model based on the Privacy Calculus theory, structural equation modelling was applied to quantify the determinants of online disclosure under various conditions. Findings The authors show that not all aspects of privacy (a multi-dimensional construct) influence information disclosure. While concerns about data collection influence self-disclosure behaviour, the level of awareness about privacy does not. They next examine the impact of internet addiction on these relationships, finding that internet addiction weakens the influence of privacy concerns to the point of non-significance. Originality/value The authors highlight some of the influences of self-disclosure behaviour, showing that some but not all aspects of privacy are influential. They also demonstrate that there are powerful influences on user behaviour that have not been accounted for in prior work; internet addiction is one of these factors. This provides some of the first evidence of the potentially deleterious effect of internet addiction on the privacy calculus.

scholarly journals Toward Addressing Location Privacy Issues: New Affiliations with Social and Location Attributes

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vgena ◽  
Kitsiou ◽  
Kalloniatis ◽  
Kavroudakis ◽  
Gritzalis
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Location Privacy ◽  
Location Information ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Location Sharing ◽  
Privacy Issues ◽  
Different Levels

Nowadays, location-sharing applications (LSA) within social media enable users to share their location information at different levels of precision. Users on their side are willing to disclose this kind of information in order to represent themselves in a socially acceptable online way. However, they express privacy concerns regarding potential malware location-sharing applications, since users’ geolocation information can provide affiliations with their social identity attributes that enable the specification of their behavioral normativity, leading to sensitive information disclosure and privacy leaks. This paper, after a systematic review on previous social and privacy location research, explores the overlapping of these fields in identifying users’ social attributes through examining location attributes while online, and proposes a targeted set of location privacy attributes related to users’ socio-spatial characteristics within social media.

Trust and Perceived Risk of Personal Information as Antecedents of Online Information Disclosure

2012 ◽  
pp. 341-361
Author(s):  
Horst Treiblmaier ◽  
Sandy Chong
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Willingness To Disclose ◽  
Online Vendor ◽  
Privacy Calculus

Individuals have to disclose personal information in order to utilize the manifold options of the Internet. Online users frequently trade data for benefits (privacy calculus). Trust in both the Internet and the vendor has been identified as an important antecedent to disclosing personal information online. The authors introduce the perceived risk of disclosing specific data types as an additional factor in the field of study. The results from a survey in three countries (Austria, Australia, and Hong Kong) show that the perceived risk of disclosing personal information is a stronger stimulus for the intention to provide personal information than having trust in the Internet or in the online vendor. Several significant differences are found in the relationships between the perceived risk of disclosing personal information, trust, and the willingness to disclose personal information.

scholarly journals Parents’ online self-disclosure and parental social media trusteeship

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (Media literacy) ◽  
pp. 97-115
Author(s):  
Thorsten Naab
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Online Privacy ◽  
Digital Identity ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Privacy Paradox ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Depth Interviews

Although parents consider online privacy important, they insouciantly include personal information about their children. Reviewing research on the privacy paradox and online self-disclosure, this article suggests the concept of media trusteeship as an additional theoretical perspective to understand how parents shape the digital identity of their children. The results of 46 in-depth interviews indicate that parents are largely unaware of the described role duality and are only partially able to foresee the consequences of their activities. The analysis identifies three distinct types of parental media trusteeship: While some parents shield their offspring from social media, others appear unable to respond adequately to the risks of social media activities or seem to ignore them completely. Finally, it became clear that the parents surveyed had no idea how to teach media literacy and guide their children to a safe and careful use of social media.

Trust and Perceived Risk of Personal Information as Antecedents of Online Information Disclosure

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 76-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horst Treiblmaier ◽  
Sandy Chong
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Willingness To Disclose ◽  
Online Vendor ◽  
Privacy Calculus

Individuals have to disclose personal information in order to utilize the manifold options of the Internet. Online users frequently trade data for benefits (privacy calculus). Trust in both the Internet and the vendor has been identified as an important antecedent to disclosing personal information online. The authors introduce the perceived risk of disclosing specific data types as an additional factor in the field of study. The results from a survey in three countries (Austria, Australia, and Hong Kong) show that the perceived risk of disclosing personal information is a stronger stimulus for the intention to provide personal information than having trust in the Internet or in the online vendor. Several significant differences are found in the relationships between the perceived risk of disclosing personal information, trust, and the willingness to disclose personal information.

Social media cultivating perceptions of privacy: A 5-year analysis of privacy attitudes and self-disclosure behaviors among Facebook users

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mina Tsay-Vogel ◽  
James Shanahan ◽  
Nancy Signorielli
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Facebook Use ◽  
The Impact

In light of the omnipresence of personal information exchange in the virtual world, this study examines the effects of Facebook use on privacy perceptions and self-disclosure behaviors across a 5-year period from 2010 to 2015. Findings at the global level support the socializing role of Facebook in cultivating more relaxed privacy attitudes, subsequently increasing self-disclosure in both offline and online contexts. However, longitudinal trends indicate that while risk perceptions increased for heavy users, they remained stable for light users. Furthermore, the negative relationship between privacy concerns and self-disclosure weakened across time. Implications for the application of cultivation theory to a contemporary social media context and the year-to-year changes in the impact of Facebook use on privacy attitudes and self-disclosure are discussed.

scholarly journals Why concern regarding privacy differs: The influence of age and (non-)participation on Facebook

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter M. P. Steijn ◽  
Alexander P. Schouten ◽  
Anton H. Vedder
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
The Relationship

Young people have obtained a reputation for caring less about their privacy due to their self-revealing presence on social media. Although one might easily be inclined to think that young people do not care about their privacy, an explanation for this could be that young people simply have a different idea of what privacy entails. This study aims to investigate the underlying mechanisms that may explain differences in privacy concerns between younger and older people and between users and non-users of social network sites (SNSs). 1.008 users of SNS and 712 non-users participated in the study with a stratified distribution over adolescents, young adults, and adults. The results show that the difference in perceived risk-benefit balance partly mediates the relationship between use or non-use of SNSs and concern. SNS users are less concerned because they perceive more benefits relative to risks. Concern regarding privacy between young and old was mediated by their differences in privacy conceptions. Older individuals were more likely to associate situations related to personal information with privacy. In turn, these individuals reported more concern regarding their privacy.

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