People have been using Social Network Sites (SNS) to communicate and make friends through online. Although SNS has been benefited its users in many ways, information privacy seemed to be overlooked. This study proposes a framework to examine users’ protective behaviour associated with information disclosure in SNS. The proposed framework was derived based on the Protection Motivation Theory and...

Background: We examine the signaling effect of borrowers’ social media behavior, especially self-disclosure behavior, on the default probability of money borrowers on a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending site. Method: We use a unique dataset that combines loan data from a large P2P lending site with the borrower’s social media presence data from a popular social media site. Results: Through a natural e...

Based on social exchange theory, this study develops a research model to examine why people disclose personal information on health social networks. The observations collected from a survey study provide supporting evidence for most of the hypothesized relationships among emotional intensity, informational needs, social needs, informational privacy concerns, social privacy concerns and self-dis...

Understanding when people reveal unfavorable information about themselves is both practically and theoretically important. Existing research suggests that people tend not to adopt stable disclosure strategies, and consequently disclose too much information in some situations (e.g., embarrassing personal information on Facebook) and too little in other situations (e.g., risky sexual behavior to ...

This article is an introduction to the subject of security in distributed systems. It is assumed that the reader is generally familiar with the concepts of computer and communications security, by which we mean protection against risks which can compromise data integrity, allow unauthorised disclosure of information or lead to denial of service in systems. However, this article aims to be clear...

Based on social-political theories, this study identifies the factors which would affect the level of environmental information report provided by Chinese companies. To evaluate the quality of corporate environmental information disclosure, the study develops a content analysis index based on Measures on Open Environmental Information, which was issued by the State Environmental Protection Admi...

Although the importance of format and presentation of privacy notices has been extensively studied in the privacy literature, less explored is the interplay of presentation and content in influencing users’ disclosure decisions. In two experiments, we manipulate the content as well as the format of privacy notices shown to participants who were asked to choose whether they would like to disclos...

Disclosure and secrecy with mothers and best friends about personal, bad behavior, and multifaceted (e.g., staying out late) activities were examined using daily diaries among 102 ethnically diverse, urban middle adolescents (M = 15.18 years, SD = .89). Adolescents disclosed more and kept fewer secrets from best friends than from mothers and more frequently disclosed and kept secrets about thei...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a chance and boost for those retailers that develop their online profile. This new context can raise privacy issues on the consumer side. For this reason, here we explore determinants of self-disclosure, its relationship with customer care. We collected data through an survey (n = 426) tested variance-based structural equations model. findings unriddle role percei...