TY - GEN
T1 - Factors affecting perceptions of privacy breach among smartphone application users
AU - Mamonov, Stanislav
AU - Benbunan-Fich, Raquel
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Drawing on psychological contract theory, we experimentally examine four factors affecting perceptions of privacy breach among smartphone application users. We investigate the effects of the type of information which is perceived to be misappropriated by the application, the presence of legal agreement giving application developers rights to use the information, the source of information suggesting that a privacy breach may have occurred and the application type (free or paid). We find that perceptions of misappropriation of financial information are more distressing than perceived misappropriation of geo-location data. The presence of legal contracts giving application developers rights to information only partially attenuates perceptions of privacy breach among application users. This study offers a novel theoretical perspective and a new focal construct of perceived privacy breach for future research on privacy. Additionally, this study highlights the practical limitations of legal contracts in preventing perceptions of privacy breach.
AB - Drawing on psychological contract theory, we experimentally examine four factors affecting perceptions of privacy breach among smartphone application users. We investigate the effects of the type of information which is perceived to be misappropriated by the application, the presence of legal agreement giving application developers rights to use the information, the source of information suggesting that a privacy breach may have occurred and the application type (free or paid). We find that perceptions of misappropriation of financial information are more distressing than perceived misappropriation of geo-location data. The presence of legal contracts giving application developers rights to information only partially attenuates perceptions of privacy breach among application users. This study offers a novel theoretical perspective and a new focal construct of perceived privacy breach for future research on privacy. Additionally, this study highlights the practical limitations of legal contracts in preventing perceptions of privacy breach.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2014.395
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2014.395
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84902276188
SN - 9781479925049
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 3178
EP - 3187
BT - Proceedings of the 47th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2014
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2014
Y2 - 6 January 2014 through 9 January 2014
ER -