Personally managing and protecting online privacy has become an essential part of everyday life. This research draws on the protection motivation theory (PMT) to investigate privacy protective behavior online. A two-wave panel study (N = 928) shows that (1) people rarely to occasionally protect their online privacy and (2) people most often delete cookies and browser history or decline cookies to protect their online privacy. In addition, (3) the perceived threat is high: People perceive the collection, usage, and sharing of personal information as a severe problem to which they are susceptible. The coping appraisal is mixed: Although people do have confidence in some protective measures, they have little confidence in their own efficacy to...
As more people seek the benefits of going online, more people are exposed to privacy risks from thei...
Mobile apps are increasingly jeopardizing app users' online privacy by collecting, storing, and shar...
The Internet has become an essential tool in the personal and professional lives of millions of peop...
Personally managing and protecting online privacy has become an essential part of everyday life. Thi...
Nearly 100% of Americans aged 18 to 29 own a cell phone of some kind, and there has been a move towa...
The advent of the Internet has made the transmission of personally identifiable information more com...
The advent of the Internet has made the transmission of personally identifiable information common a...
Despite increased concern about the privacy threat posed by new technology and the Internet, there i...
Despite increased concern about the privacy threat posed by new technology and the Internet, there i...
As much as consumers express desires to safeguard their online privacy, they often fail to do so eff...
Existing constructs for privacy concerns and behaviors do not adequately model deviations between us...
This study investigates the effects of mindfulness, an important personality trait, on people’s perc...
The popularity of social networking websites among Internet users continues to grow, even though soc...
Every transaction that is made either online or offline, and every social interaction that is transf...
Research on online behavioral advertising has focused on users ’ attitudes towards sharing and what ...
As more people seek the benefits of going online, more people are exposed to privacy risks from thei...
Mobile apps are increasingly jeopardizing app users' online privacy by collecting, storing, and shar...
The Internet has become an essential tool in the personal and professional lives of millions of peop...
Personally managing and protecting online privacy has become an essential part of everyday life. Thi...
Nearly 100% of Americans aged 18 to 29 own a cell phone of some kind, and there has been a move towa...
The advent of the Internet has made the transmission of personally identifiable information more com...
The advent of the Internet has made the transmission of personally identifiable information common a...
Despite increased concern about the privacy threat posed by new technology and the Internet, there i...
Despite increased concern about the privacy threat posed by new technology and the Internet, there i...
As much as consumers express desires to safeguard their online privacy, they often fail to do so eff...
Existing constructs for privacy concerns and behaviors do not adequately model deviations between us...
This study investigates the effects of mindfulness, an important personality trait, on people’s perc...
The popularity of social networking websites among Internet users continues to grow, even though soc...
Every transaction that is made either online or offline, and every social interaction that is transf...
Research on online behavioral advertising has focused on users ’ attitudes towards sharing and what ...
As more people seek the benefits of going online, more people are exposed to privacy risks from thei...
Mobile apps are increasingly jeopardizing app users' online privacy by collecting, storing, and shar...
The Internet has become an essential tool in the personal and professional lives of millions of peop...