The Privacy Paradox - Investigating People's Attitude Towards Privacy in a Time of COVID-19

R. Trestian, Edoardo Celeste, G. Xie, P. Lohar, Malika Bendechache, Rob Brennan, Irina Tal
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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.
隐私悖论——调查新冠肺炎时代人们对隐私的态度
作为应对新冠肺炎全球大流行机制的数字技术的出现,引发了人们对隐私和安全问题的严重担忧。尽管存在这些担忧和数据滥用的潜在风险,包括第三方使用,但世界各国仍在推动接触者追踪应用程序的使用和扩散。然而,这些接触追踪应用程序的成功依赖于它们的采用和使用。一个众所周知的现象被称为隐私悖论,它被定义为用户在保护隐私时表达的隐私担忧与实际行为之间的差异。在此背景下,本文提出了一项研究,调查全球大流行背景下的隐私悖论。一项全国性的调查已经进行,并对数据进行了分析,以检查人们对隐私风险的看法。结果显示,人们对隐私的担忧与他们的实际行为之间存在不一致,这反映在他们在全球大流行期间分享移动数据的态度转变上。该研究还为政策制定者编制了一系列建议。
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