Privacy and surveillance attitudes during health crises: Acceptance of surveillance and privacy protection behaviours

Ioannou, Athina; Tussyadiah, Iis

doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101774

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“…The prerequisites for the acceptance of surveillance measures can also be linked to various threats, which the COVID-19 pandemic has shown. For example, Ioannou and Tyssyaduah [23] studied the acceptance of surveillance and privacy protection behaviors during the global health crisis in the US. In accordance with Trüdinger and Steckermeier [52], they found that trust in the government and the need for proactive surveillance are positively associated with acceptance.…”

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“…Threat perception and attitudes towards the government and authorities are also associated with the perceived need for surveillance measures. People with a higher threat perception are more likely to support government surveillance technologies [23,52]. Trust in authorities is positively correlated to the increased acceptance of surveillance measures [18,52].…”

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Privacy Concerns and Acceptance Factors of OSINT for Cybersecurity: A Representative Survey

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The use of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to monitor and detect cybersecurity threats is gaining popularity among Cybersecurity Emergency or Incident Response Teams (CERTs/CSIRTs). They increasingly use semi-automated OSINT approaches when monitoring cyber threats for public infrastructure services and incident response. Most of the systems use publicly available data, often focusing on social media due to timely data for situational assessment. As indirect and affected stakeholders, the acceptance of OSINT systems by users, as well as the conditions which influence the acceptance, are relevant for the development of OSINT systems for cybersecurity. Therefore, as part of the ethical and social technology assessment, we conducted a survey (N=1,093), in which we asked participants about their acceptance of OSINT systems, their perceived need for open source surveillance, as well as their privacy behavior and concerns. Further, we tested if the awareness of OSINT is an interactive factor that affects other factors. Our results indicate that cyber threat perception and the perceived need for OSINT are positively related to acceptance, while privacy concerns are negatively related. The awareness of OSINT, however, has only shown effects on people with higher privacy concerns. Here, particularly high OSINT awareness and limited privacy concerns were associated with higher OSINT acceptance. Lastly, we provide implications for further research and the use of OSINT systems for cybersecurity by authorities. As OSINT is a framework rather than a single technology, approaches can be selected and combined to adhere to data minimization and anonymization as well as to leverage improvements in privacy-preserving computation and machine learning innovations. Regarding the use of OSINT, the results suggest to favor approaches that provide transparency to users regarding the use of the systems and the data they gather.

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Section: Acceptance Of Surveillance Technologiesmentioning

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Privacy Concerns and Acceptance Factors of OSINT for Cybersecurity: A Representative Survey

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Biselli

Kaufhold

et al. 2023

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“…This non-participatory technique was presented as a substitute for local “participatory COVID-19 surveillance tools” [ 100 , 101 ] and due to individuals' possible reluctance to install the app on their smartphones [ 98 ]. According to scholars, the participatory or non-voluntary nature of CTA will blur the lines between health data and existing government surveillance measures [ 11 , 102 ]. As a result, an emphasis is being devoted to the development of non-participatory, privacy-preserving surveillance systems in which users are not obliged to use CTA and diseases are monitored without relying on citizen self-reports [ 98 ].…”

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“…Prior research has revealed that, if widely adopted by citizens, CTA could be effective in combating the spread of COVID-19 [ 7 ]. Previous research concludes that the adoption of CTAs may be hampered by ethical concerns [ 8 , 9 ] and new forms of surveillance and monitoring by governments and corporations collaborating with governments [ 10 , 11 ]. According to prior findings, automatic contact tracing systems exacerbate privacy vulnerabilities by collecting sensitive personal data [ 12 , 13 ] and creating persistent and vulnerable records of individuals' health, movements, and social contacts [ 14 ].…”

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Delineating privacy aspects of COVID tracing applications embedded with proximity measurement technologies & digital technologies

Saheb

Sabour

Qanbary

2022

Technology in Society

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“…Recent studies point out the privacy concerns when using health QR code, especially for its function of collecting and analyzing users' trajectory data to track possibly infected individuals (Guo et al, 2022 ). During crises, individuals may choose to give up some of their privacy (Hiller & Russell, 2017 ), in exchange for benefits such as increased security (Ioannou & Tussyadiah, 2021 ), and may even sacrifice privacy to gain the benefits offered by ICTs (Friedewald et al, 2017 ). Citizens' trust in governments can increase significantly as governments deal with crises more effectively (Horvath et al, 2020 ).…”

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The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China

Guo

Zhou

Chen

2022

Review of Policy Research

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How can the enforcement of policies in the past influence a society's future adoption of information communication technologies (ICTs)? In this paper, we tackle this question by exploring how past e‐governance policies influence citizens' willingness to use the health QR code, which is a COVID‐19 tracing app widely used in China's pandemic control. Past policies regarding smart‐city development in China involve two aspects: the construction of electronic infrastructure and the applications of specific technologies. Empirical analysis based on a nationwide dataset in China suggests that past policies exhibit persuasive effects and influence citizens' acceptance of the health QR code. Specifically, e‐governance applications in cities significantly enhance citizens' acceptance through the demonstration of their usefulness. However, the construction of e‐governance infrastructure per se does not have the same impact on citizens' acceptance. By connecting citizens' acceptance of new technology with past e‐governance policies, the study illustrates a nuanced policy feedback mechanism through which past policies can substantially reshape public opinion by policy outcomes.

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Privacy and surveillance attitudes during health crises: Acceptance of surveillance and privacy protection behaviours

Cited by 38 publications

References 65 publications

Privacy Concerns and Acceptance Factors of OSINT for Cybersecurity: A Representative Survey

Privacy Concerns and Acceptance Factors of OSINT for Cybersecurity: A Representative Survey

Delineating privacy aspects of COVID tracing applications embedded with proximity measurement technologies & digital technologies

The persuasive role of the past: Policy feedback and citizens' acceptance of information communication technologies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China

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