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Privacy Awareness: A Means to Solve the Privacy Paradox?

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Abstract

People are limited in their resources, i.e. they have limited memory capabilities, cannot pay attention to too many things at the same time, and forget much information after a while; computers do not suffer from these limitations. Thus, revealing personal data in electronic communication environments and being completely unaware of the impact of privacy might cause a lot of privacy issues later. Even if people are privacy aware in general, the so-called privacy paradox shows that they do not behave according to their stated attitudes. This paper discusses explanations for the existing dichotomy between the intentions of people towards disclosure of personal data and their behaviour. We present requirements on tools for privacy-awareness support in order to counteract the privacy paradox.

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  • Privacy
  • Privacy Awareness
  • Privacy Paradox

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dresden, D-01062, Dresden, Germany

    Stefanie Pötzsch

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  1. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Vashek Matyáš & Petr Švenda & 

  2. Department of Computer Science, Karlstad University, Universitetsgatan 2, 651 88, Karlstad, Sweden

    Simone Fischer-Hübner

  3. Brno University of Technology, Bozetechova 2, 612 66, Brno, Czech Republic

    Daniel Cvrček

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Pötzsch, S. (2009). Privacy Awareness: A Means to Solve the Privacy Paradox?. In: Matyáš, V., Fischer-Hübner, S., Cvrček, D., Švenda, P. (eds) The Future of Identity in the Information Society. Privacy and Identity 2008. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03315-5_17

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