Privacy regulations can affect the willingness to collect personal health data that may be disclosed to insurers. Perfect privacy cannot always be guaranteed. Consequently, people may refrain from collecting personal health data. This paper provides a theoretical and experimental analysis of the importance of privacy regulations for information acquisition and disclosure behavior. We contrast t...

This paper describes empirical research into the privacy preferences and behaviors of individuals regarding personalization in music recommender systems. These phenomena concern music recommendations based on two different types of user information: preferences for music genres and personality traits. Our results indicate similar disclosure behavior by users for both types of personal informati...

With the phenomenal change in a way data are collected, stored and disseminated among various data analyst there is an urgent need of protecting the privacy of data. As when individual data get disseminated among various users, there is a high risk of revelation of sensitive data related to any individual, which may violate various legal and ethical issues. Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) ...

Self-disclosure is popular on social network site (SNS). However, teenagers’ self-disclosure behavior and their regret of posting, a negative emotional experience, have been seldom studied. Using data from a nationally representative survey, this study tries to investigate teenagers’ self-disclosure and regret of posting on SNS. We further examine how demographic variables, SNS use, different t...

Current studies on information privacy fail to explain widely observed contradictions between online consumers’ privacy concern (treated as a general personality trait) and online information disclosure. These contradictions occur because situation-specific factors are not taken into account. This paper contributes to the literature on information privacy by theorizing and empirically testing h...

information disclosure and quality of their presentation are affected by a lot of environmental and organizational factors that organizational culture is one of the most important. responsible organization culture creates a dynamic information environment and helps the quality of information disclosure. accordingly, the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of organizational culture on t...

Personalized services can cause privacy concerns, due to the acquisition, storage and application of sensitive personal information. This paper describes empirical research into the factors influencing the trade-off between the perceived benefits of personalization and the privacy ‘costs’ experienced by individuals. The experiment in question concerns a music recommender system accessed over th...

Corporate information systems security managers are continuously investing in the latest technical security tools to make their defenses against internal and external attacks on their information systems effective and efficient. However, these technical tools do not provide complete protection and organizations are experiencing a rise in security breaches. The cause of some security breaches ar...

In the modern digital society, personal information about individuals can be collected, stored, shared, and disseminated much more easily and freely. Such data can be released in macrodata form, reporting aggregated information, or in microdata form, reporting specific information on individual respondent. Protecting data against improper disclosure is then becoming critical to ensure proper pr...

M disclose quality information directly to potential consumers using a variety of communication channels. This study investigates how competition may influence duopoly firms’ incentive to voluntarily reveal quality information. We show that firms in competitive markets reveal less information than a monopoly firm. In addition, sequential disclosure leads to asymmetric equilibrium disclosure beh...