Public Privacy: Government, Industry, Privacy, and Sharing in a Networked World

• In Event: Privacy in Our Digital and Technological World

Abstract

With the seemingly ever-increasing number of revelations about the level of information the government and private industry collects on individuals, it is unsurprising that there are a number of corresponding changes in public attitudes towards this type of information. What is less clear, however, is where the issues with this intelligence gathering lie: in the governmental collection effort, the private collections of data, or the combination of these two. The current study takes a two-fold approach to the issue by using confirmatory factor analysis on primary data to examine the dimensionality of privacy as a construct, as well as examining the question of how this dimensionality plays out in the social spheres that people inhabit - particularly online.

Authors

• Joshua Hill, Tiffin University

• Steven Hurwitz, Tiffin University