How Internet Users' Privacy Concerns Have Evolved since 2002

In 2002, we established a baseline for Internet users’ online privacy values. Through a survey we found that information transfer, notice/awareness, and information storage were the top online privacy concerns of Internet users. Since this survey there have been many privacy-related events, including changes in online trends and the creation of laws, prompting us to rerun the survey in 2008 to examine how these events may have affected Internet users’ online privacy concerns. In this paper, we discuss the 2008 survey, which revealed that U.S. Internet users top three privacy concerns have not changed since 2002; however, their level of concern within these categories may have been influenced by these privacyrelated events. In addition, we examine differences in privacy concerns between U.S. and international respondents.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: IEEESP
• Authors: Annie I. Antón, Julia Brande Earp, Jessica D. Young
• Keywords: IEEESP 2010, Internet Users, Online, Privacy Concerns