Open AccessPrivacy attitudes and behaviors in the age of post-privacy:
Author(s) -
Nicolas Demertzis,
Katerina Mandenaki,
Charalambos Tsekeris
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of digital social research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2003-1998
DOI - 10.33621/jdsr.v3i1.75
Subject(s) - internet privacy , information privacy , the internet , personally identifiable information , entertainment , data collection , privacy by design , field (mathematics) , privacy policy , empirical research , business , psychology , advertising , political science , computer science , sociology , computer security , world wide web , law , social science , philosophy , mathematics , epistemology , pure mathematics
The digital world is a field of information and entertainment for users and a field of extraction of the most valuable good of recent years: personal data. How much of a threat to privacy is the collection and processing of data by third parties and what do people think about it? On the occasion of the extensive methods of surveilling citizens and collecting their data, this study attempts to contribute new empirical data evidence from the international research on the use of the Internet by the World Internet Project on attitudes and behaviors of individuals regarding online privacy and surveillance. The aim is to determine whether and to what extent the recorded concerns about the violation of privacy intersects with a growing acceptance of its very absence.