Identity management is a relevant issue at a national and international level. Any approach to identity management is incomplete unless privacy is also a consideration. Existing research on evaluating an individual’s privacy preferences has shown discrepancies in the stated standards required by users, and the corresponding observed behaviour. We take a contextual approach to surveying privacy, using the framework proposed by contextual integrity, with the aim of further understanding users self reported views on privacy at a national level.
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Sheedy, C., Kumaraguru, P. (2008). A Contextual Method for Evaluating Privacy Preferences. In: de Leeuw, E., Fischer-Hübner, S., Tseng, J., Borking, J. (eds) Policies and Research in Identity Management. The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 261. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77996-6_11
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