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e-Government in China has made great progress in its development. However, many challenges stills persist with privacy protection being a serious issue. In this chapter, we analyse privacy statements in city governments in China. We chose the 100 largest cities in China based on their GDP ranking and evaluated their privacy statement performance through an index. The study found that the overall performance was poor with an average score of 26.63 out of 100 cities’ use of privacy statements showed that greater performance was explained by economy, budget, and location factors. With more and more public services being provided through government websites, city governments need to have stronger privacy protection to create a better environment for e-Government development.
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Reddick, C.G., Zheng, Y. (2018). Online Privacy Protection in Chinese City Governments: An Analysis of Privacy Statements. In: Alcaide Muñoz, L., RodrĂguez BolĂvar, M. (eds) International E-Government Development . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63284-1_5
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