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Is older, wiser?: an age-specific study of exposure of private information

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Swapna Kolimi,

Feng Zhu,

Sandra CarpenterAuthors Info & Claims

ACMSE '12: Proceedings of the 50th annual ACM Southeast Conference

Pages 30 - 35

https://doi.org/10.1145/2184512.2184520

Published: 29 March 2012 Publication History

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The world of Internet is a versatile place, not only as a means of convenience for an individual where quite possibly any mundane task can be taken care of with a click of a button, but also as a hot spot for those who lurk around the corners of the Internet to obtain other people's data. These data can then be used for any number of purposes, from seemingly harmless statistics collection for boosting the sales of a company to the damaging crime of identity theft. In this paper we discuss whether older adults are more careful about keeping their information private than their younger counterparts. We show that the difference in attitudes about keeping identity elements private on the Internet can be attributed to age difference. Our surveys show that older adults in fact place more importance on the privacy of their identity elements and hence may be more apprehensive about sharing information online. Our analyses show that more number of older adults considered their identity elements as being "extremely important" to keep private than their younger counterparts.

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ISBN:9781450312035

DOI:10.1145/2184512

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Knowles BHanson V(2018)Older Adults’ Deployment of ‘Distrust’ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/319649025:4(1-25)Online publication date: 9-Aug-2018
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Orzech KMoncur WDurrant AJames SCollomosse J(2017)Digital photographic practices as expressions of personhood and identity: variations across school leavers and recent retireesVisual Studies10.1080/1472586X.2017.136295932:4(313-328)Online publication date: 11-Dec-2017
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