Sex differences in attitudes towards online privacy and anonymity among
Israeli students with different technical backgrounds
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03814v1
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 12:36:37 GMT
- Title: Sex differences in attitudes towards online privacy and anonymity among
Israeli students with different technical backgrounds
- Authors: Maor Weinberger, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet and Dan Bouhnik
- Abstract summary: Our aim was to comparatively model men and women's online privacy attitudes.
Various factors related to the user's online privacy and anonymity were considered.
Users' tendency to engage in privacy paradox behaviour was not higher among men despite their higher level of technological online privacy literacy compared to women.
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- Abstract: Introduction. In this exploratory study, we proposed an experimental
framework to investigate and model male/female differences in attitudes towards
online privacy and anonymity among Israeli students. Our aim was to
comparatively model men and women's online privacy attitudes, and to assess the
online privacy gender gap. Method. Various factors related to the user's online
privacy and anonymity were considered, such as awareness of anonymous threats
made online, concern for protecting personal information on the Internet,
online privacy self-efficacy, online privacy literacy and users' tendency to
engage in privacy paradox behaviour, i.e., personal data disclosure despite the
awareness of anonymity and privacy threats. Analysis. A user study was carried
out among 169 Israeli academic students through a quantitative method using
closed-ended questionnaires. The subjects' responses were analysed using
standard statistical measures. We then proposed a summarized comparative model
for the two sexes' online privacy behaviour. Results. We found that a digital
gap still exists between men and women regarding technological knowledge and
skills used to protect their identity and personal information on the Web.
Interestingly, users' tendency to engage in privacy paradox behaviour was not
higher among men despite their higher level of technological online privacy
literacy compared to women. Conclusions. Women's relatively high online privacy
self-efficacy level and their low awareness of technological threat do not
match their relatively low technological online privacy literacy level. This
leads to a lower ability to protect their identity and personal information as
compared to men. We conclude that further steps should be taken to eliminate
the inter-gender technological gap in online privacy and anonymity awareness
and literacy.
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