The Privacy Paradox - investigating people's attitude towards privacy in a time of COVID-19
Conference paper
Trestian, R., Celeste, E., Xie, G., Lohar, P., Bendechache, M., Brennan, R. and Tal, I. 2022. The Privacy Paradox - investigating people's attitude towards privacy in a time of COVID-19. The 14th International Conference on Communications (COMM). Bucharest (Virtual Conference) 16 - 18 Jun 2022 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMM54429.2022.9817170
Type | Conference paper |
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Title | The Privacy Paradox - investigating people's attitude towards privacy in a time of COVID-19 |
Authors | Trestian, R., Celeste, E., Xie, G., Lohar, P., Bendechache, M., Brennan, R. and Tal, I. |
Abstract | The advent of digital technologies used as a mechanism to deal with the Covid-19 global pandemic, has raised serious concerns around privacy and security issues. Despite these concerns and the potential risk of data misuse, including third party use, countries around the world have pushed the use and proliferation of contact-tracing applications. However, the success of these contact-tracing applications relies on their adoption and use. A well known phenomenon referred to as privacy paradox is defined as the discrepancy between the expressed privacy concern and the actual behaviour of users when it comes to protect their privacy. In this context, this paper presents a study investigating the privacy paradox in the context of a global pandemic. A national survey has been conducted and the data is analysed to examine people's privacy risk perception. The results show inconsistencies between people's privacy concerns and their actual behaviour that is reflected in their attitude shift of sharing their mobile data during a global pandemic. The study also compiles a list of recommendations for policymakers. |
Sustainable Development Goals | 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure |
Conference | The 14th International Conference on Communications (COMM) |
ISBN | |
Electronic | 9781665494854 |
Paperback | 9781665494861 |
Publisher | IEEE |
Publication dates | |
16 Jun 2022 | |
Online | 13 Jul 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 17 Jun 2022 |
Accepted | 12 May 2022 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/COMM54429.2022.9817170 |
Language | English |
Book title | 2022 14th International Conference on Communications (COMM) |
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