Re: [Social-discuss] How Different are Young Adults from Older Adults When it Comes to Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies?

[Mischa Tuffield]

Hi, 

Thanks for the link, will give the full document a read soon.

"Pew" in the US did a recent survey on young peoples attitudes to privacy, and 
they found that young people are as worried about theirs as their adult 
counterparts: 

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Reputation-Management.aspx

dannah boyd from M$ research gives a nice summary of the report here: 

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/05/26/pew-research-confirms-that-youth-care-about-their-reputation.html

The research you linked to got mentioned in the reg (not a fan of), which is 
pseudo mainstream-press I guess: 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/privacy_survey/

Thanks for the link, will no longer have to cite the reg ;)

Mischa

On 2 Jun 2010, at 05:12, Hellekin O. Wolf wrote:

> I was pointed to a paper "How Different are Young Adults from Older
> Adults When it Comes to Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies?"
> 
> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1589864
> 
> Two relevant points from the abstract for those who won't read it,
> beyond the fact that the study didn't find significant differences
> between young older adults regarding privacy (emphasis mine):
> 
> 42 percent of young Americans answered all of our five online privacy
> questions *incorrectly*. 88 percent answered only two or fewer
> correctly. The problem is even more pronounced when presented with
> offline privacy issues – post hoc analysis showed that young Americans
> were more likely to answer no questions correctly than any other age
> group.
> 
> We conclude then that young-adult Americans have *an aspiration for
> increased privacy* even while they participate in an online reality
> that is optimized to increase their revelation of personal data. 
> 
> ==
> hk
>