Can Technology and Privacy Co-Exist in a Pandemic?

2021 ◽  
pp. 207-220
Author(s):  
Ze Shi Li ◽  
Visakha Phusamruat ◽  
Tony Clear ◽  
Daniela Damian
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
Data Driven Decisions ◽  
Complex Question ◽  
Erroneous Data

This chapter assesses whether the short-term benefits of using digital technology to suppress the Covid-19 pandemic justify the detrimental long-term consequences for privacy. It addresses this complex question through an inevitably incomplete discussion of privacy data protection laws, technology design, and trust in governments and technology providers as well as cultural understandings of privacy. After outlining the technology-assisted measures in various regions in Asia, the chapter highlights major privacy concerns and looks at a number of trade-offs that emerge from the use of technology to contain the spread of the virus. These trade-offs exemplify the risks of adoption of just-in-time software technologies for public health purposes without fully understanding their impact on users and of potentially erroneous data-driven decisions and the involuntary collection of personal data. They also raise important policy questions in the dynamic and fast-shifting context of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Privacy Concerns and Consumer Willingness to Provide Personal Information

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Phelps ◽  
Glen Nowak ◽  
Elizabeth Ferrell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Direct Marketing ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Consumer Privacy ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Situational Characteristics ◽  
Information Type

The authors examine potential relationships among categories of personal information, beliefs about direct marketing, situational characteristics, specific privacy concerns, and consumers’ direct marketing shopping habits. Furthermore, the authors offer an assessment of the trade-offs consumers are willing to make when they exchange personal information for shopping benefits. The findings indicate that public policy and self-regulatory efforts to alleviate consumer privacy concerns should provide consumers with more control over the initial gathering and subsequent dissemination of personal information. Such efforts must also consider the type of information sought, because consumer concern and willingness to provide marketers with personal data vary dramatically by information type.

scholarly journals Silent Listeners: The Evolution of Privacy and Disclosure on Facebook

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Stutzman ◽  
Ralph Gross ◽  
Alessandro Acquisti
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Over Time

Over the past decade, social network sites have experienced dramatic growth in popularity, reaching most demographics and providing new opportunities for interaction and socialization. Through this growth, users have been challenged to manage novel privacy concerns and balance nuanced trade-offs between disclosing and withholding personal information. To date, however, no study has documented how privacy and disclosure evolved on social network sites over an extended period of time. In this manuscript we use profile data from a longitudinal panel of 5,076 Facebook users to understand how their privacy and disclosure behavior changed between 2005---the early days of the network---and 2011. Our analysis highlights three contrasting trends. First, over time Facebook users in our dataset exhibited increasingly privacy-seeking behavior, progressively decreasing the amount of personal data shared publicly with unconnected profiles in the same network. However, and second, changes implemented by Facebook near the end of the period of time under our observation arrested or in some cases inverted that trend. Third, the amount and scope of personal information that Facebook users revealed privately to other connected profiles actually increased over time---and because of that, so did disclosures to ``silent listeners'' on the network: Facebook itself, third-party apps, and (indirectly) advertisers. These findings highlight the tension between privacy choices as expressions of individual subjective preferences, and the role of the environment in shaping those choices.

Preparing Your Digital Legacy

2014 ◽  
pp. 208-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Braman ◽  
Ursula Thomas ◽  
Giovanni Vincenti ◽  
Alfreda Dudley ◽  
Karen Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Network Usage ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
Additional Education ◽  
Social Networking Tools ◽  
Digital Identities ◽  
Over Time

With the increasing use of social networking tools and sites available, we must be mindful of the long-term consequences of posting information online. The combination of images, comments, and other personal data shape our online digital persona. Over time and throughout the lifetime of our many online profiles and digital identities, these representations and data become our digital legacy. When we pass away, it is this information that is left behind to represent who we are to other users, family, and friends. Additionally, all of the photos and other content remain online. In this chapter, the authors discuss the construction of one’s digital legacy and focus on the need for additional education about social networking usage for the future. Additionally, they present feedback from a study of college-aged students related to this topic and their views on social network usage.

scholarly journals Moose or spruce: A systems analysis model for managing conflicts between moose and forestry in Sweden

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oskar Franklin ◽  
Andrey Krasovskiy ◽  
Florian Kraxner ◽  
Anton Platov ◽  
Dmitry Schepaschenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
National Level ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
Moose Hunting ◽  
Moose Population

AbstractSweden has the world’s highest density of moose (Alces alces). Moose is not only a valuable game species; it also causes forest damages and traffic accidents. To avoid moose browsing, foresters respond by planting spruce (Picea abies) to an extent that reshapes the forest landscape with impacts on both production and biodiversity. To address this problem and maintain a healthy moose population in balance with the other interests, an adaptive management based on the knowledge and experiences of local hunters and landowners is advocated. However, the different stakeholders do not agree on what is an appropriate moose population, which leads to conflicts that are hard to resolve. A key problem is that it is very difficult to encompass and foresee long-term consequences of different options for moose hunting and forest management. This makes it challenging to form coherent strategies that integrate different sectorial interests at a national level. To address this issue, we have developed a systems analysis framework for integrated modeling of the moose population, forestry, and their interactions and consequences for biodiversity. We analyze the short and long-term consequences for multiple scenarios of moose hunting and forest management. Based on the results we elucidate and quantify the trade-offs and possible synergies between moose hunting and forest production. This analysis can be used to support better informed and more constructive discussions among the stakeholders in the Swedish forest sectors, and to support policies for long term sustainable forest and moose management.

scholarly journals “Sharing Is Caring:” Australian Self-Trackers' Concepts and Practices of Personal Data Sharing and Privacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Lupton
Keyword(s):  
Data Sharing ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Contextual Elements

Self-tracking technologies and practices offer ways of generating vast reams of personal details, raising questions about how these data are revealed or exposed to others. In this article, I report on findings from an interview-based study of long-term Australian self-trackers who were collecting and reviewing personal information about their bodies and other aspects of their everyday lives. The discussion focuses on the participants' understandings and practices related to sharing their personal data and to data privacy. The contextual elements of self-tracked sharing and privacy concerns were evident in the participants' accounts and were strongly related to ideas about why and how these details should be accessed by others. Sharing personal information from self-tracking was largely viewed as an intimate social experience. The value of self-tracked data to contribute to close face-to-face relationships was recognized and related aspects of social privacy were identified. However, most participants did not consider the possibilities that their personal information could be distributed well-beyond these relationships by third parties for commercial purposes (or what has been termed “institutional privacy”). These findings contribute to a more-than-digital approach to personal data sharing and privacy practices that recognizes the interplay between digital and non-digital practices and contexts. They also highlight the relational and social dimensions of self-tracking and concepts of data privacy.

Do Privacy Concerns Differ between Smart Speakers and mHealth? A Comparison between Privacy-related Concepts among Seniors (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Schroeder ◽  
Maximilian Haug ◽  
Heiko Gewald
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Mobile Health Application ◽  
Free Data ◽  
Mhealth Technology ◽  
Health Application ◽  
The Relationship

BACKGROUND Several technologies process personal data, such as mHealth applications, or smart speakers. Privacy research focuses on the influence of privacy-related issues. However, the understanding of the characteristics of the data (e.g., surveillance vs health data) especially among older adults and the relation to privacy is relatively thin. OBJECTIVE This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the trade-offs between user requirements and privacy concerns when using mHealth technology and smart speaker technology and to identify issues that need to be addressed to reduce user concerns. METHODS In this qualitative study with semi-structured interviews, 10 participants used a smart speaker, and 10 participants used a mobile health application to determine the influence of privacy on acceptance based on the differences in the processed data. RESULTS The results reveal a resignation among seniors concerning their health data, so that a potential data leak may not influence them at the later stage of their life. Furthermore, smart speakers' privacy concerns were dismissed due to the lack of knowledge about the possible ramification of data abuse. These findings imply to focus more on privacy literacy among elderly adults and suggest barrier-free data protection regulations. CONCLUSIONS The authors were able to identify factors that influence the relationship between privacy concerns and risk assessments and validate how older people, in particular, manage their personal data.

scholarly journals Asymmetric evolvability leads to specialization without trade-offs

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy A. Draghi
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Parameters ◽  
Optimal Foraging Theory ◽  
Local Optimum ◽  
Recombination Rates ◽  
Common Environment ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Common ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
Evolution Of Specialization

AbstractMany ideas about the evolution of specialization rely on trade-offs—an inability for one organism to express maximal performance in two or more environments. However, optimal foraging theory suggests that populations can evolve specialization on a superior resource without explicit trade-offs. Classical results in population genetics show that the process of adaptation can be biased toward further improvement in already productive environments, potentially widening the gap between superior and inferior resources. Here I synthesize these approaches with new insights on evolvability at low recombination rates, showing that emergent asymmetries in evolvability can push a population toward specialization in the absence of trade-offs. Simulations are used to demonstrate how adaptation to a more common environment interferes with adaptation to a less common but otherwise equal alternative environment. Shaped by recombination rates and other population-genetic parameters, this process results in either the retention of a generalist niche without trade-offs or entrapment at the local optimum of specialization on the common environment. These modeling results predict that transient differences in evolvability across traits during an episode of adaptation could have long-term consequences for a population’s niche.

Maximizing Outcomes in Group Treatment of Aphasia: Lessons Learned From a Community-Based Center

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darlene Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Group Treatment ◽  
Treatment Protocol ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Group Program ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Multiple Treatment ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Communication Impairments ◽  
Treatment Settings

Given the potential of long term intervention to positively influence speech/language and psychosocial domains, a treatment protocol was developed at the Stroke Comeback Center which addresses communication impairments arising from chronic aphasia. This article presents the details of this program including the group purposes and principles, the use of technology in groups, and the applicability of a group program across multiple treatment settings.

Barriers to Physical Activity in Adolescents

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Langguth ◽  
Tanja Könen ◽  
Simone Matulis ◽  
Regina Steil ◽  
Caterina Gawrilow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Outcome Expectations ◽  
Multidimensional Approach ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Tailored Interventions ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
Age Range

During adolescence, physical activity (PA) decreases with potentially serious, long-term consequences for physical and mental health. Although barriers have been identified as an important PA correlate in adults, research on adolescents’ PA barriers is lacking. Thus reliable, valid scales to measure adolescents’ PA barriers are needed. We present two studies describing a broad range of PA barriers relevant to adolescents with a multidimensional approach. In Study 1, 124 adolescents (age range = 12 – 24 years) reported their most important PA barriers. Two independent coders categorized those barriers. The most frequent PA barriers were incorporated in a multidimensional questionnaire. In Study 2, 598 adolescents (age range = 13 – 21 years) completed this questionnaire and reported their current PA, intention, self-efficacy, and negative outcome expectations. Seven PA barrier dimensions (leisure activities, lack of motivation, screen-based sedentary behavior, depressed mood, physical health, school workload, and preconditions) were confirmed in factor analyses. A multidimensional approach to measuring PA barriers in adolescents is reliable and valid. The current studies provide the basis for developing individually tailored interventions to increase PA in adolescents.

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