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Title Restricted privacy: Information privacy as a culture-specific construct
Author Ribak, R.
Year 2002
Access date 04.05.2004
Abstract Despite the vast literature on computer privacy and in a disturbing contrast to its essentialist, universalistic assumptions, little is known about information privacy outside North America. Further, while we know little about privacy regulation and violation in other countries, we know close to nothing about how people actually conceive of their individual privacy and how they practically maintain (or forgo) it. In this paper, I draw on a comparative survey addressed to nationwide samples in Israel and the U.S. in order demonstrate the spatial and temporal contours of individuals and communities’ distinctive senses of privacy. The survey indicated that U.S. respondents were more exposed to the Internet and more concerned over the threat it posed to their privacy; and they constructed themselves, along with the government and the industry, as responsible for protecting their children. Israeli parents were less impressed with the alleged promise and the danger of the Internet, and they constructed their children as dependable and in charge. These respective profiles of parental privacy concerns underscore the particular significance of cross-cultural research in the case of the Internet, and highlight the need for a culturally sensitive theory of information privacy.
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Year of publication2002
Bibliographic typeConferences, workshops, tutorials, presentations
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