• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.21-44
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• 2007

Internet privacy is named as one of the major barriers to the expansion and further development of e-commerce. This study is to identify the antecedents to Internet privacy concerns, to investigate the relationship of the antecedents and the perceived trust and to validate Internet privacy's effect on the perceived trust. A conceptual model which identifies Internet literacy and perceived vulnerability as antecedents to Internet privacy concern is proposed and tested based on the sample of 276 Internet users. Empirical findings show that Internet literacy affect Internet privacy concern negatively while perceived vulnerability affect positively. Also perceived vulnerability's effect on and privacy concern's effect on perceived trust has both directional negative support. Implications and further research agenda are provided with the limitation of the study.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.149-165
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• 2014

This paper has studied whether cultural factors have an effect on privacy concern of Internet users in Korea and China. The result has shown that power distance, individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation are positively related to privacy concern, while masculinity is negatively related to privacy concern. This study has also found some similarities and differences between the two countries. First, privacy concern of Korean Internet users is significantly higher than that of Chinese users. Second, individualism and uncertainty avoidance significantly affect privacy concern in both Korea and China, although individualism in Korea has stronger effect than that in China. Third, long term orientation has a significant effect in only Korea while power distance is significant only in China. These results suggest that an online company doing businesses in multiple countries should have country-specific privacy policies to deal with the privacy concern of Internet users in different countries.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.1046-1054
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• 2019

With regard to the diffusion of mobile Internet service and generational differences for Internet use, this study aims to explore the relationship between the Internet activities and privacy concern based on the media dependency theory. Using the Korea Media Panel data produced by KISDI in 2018, this study analysed 8,988 nation-wide samples to test the difference of Internet use in personal privacy concern among generations. The results of the study showed that there was statistically significant difference for privacy concern among generations. This study has an implication to reveal the phenomenon of 'privacy paradox' by showing that SNS use negatively influenced users' privacy concern.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.93-123
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• 2017

Purpose The purpose of this study is to deduct the factors for explaining the economic behavior of an Internet user who provides personal information notwithstanding the concern about an invasion of privacy based on the Information Privacy Calculus Theory and Communication Privacy Management Theory. Design/methodology/approach This study made a design of the research model by integrating the factors deducted from the computation theory of information privacy with the factors deducted from the management theory of communication privacy on the basis of the Dual-Process Theory. In addition, this study, did empirical analysis of the path difference between groups by dividing Internet users into a group having experience in personal information spill and another group having no experience. Findings According to the empirical analysis result, this study confirmed that the Privacy Concern about forms through the Perceived Privacy Risk derived from the Disposition to value Privacy. In addition, this study confirmed that the behavior of an Internet user involved in personal information offering occurs due to the Perceived Benefits contradicting the Privacy Concern.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.97-114
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• 2019

Purpose The purpose of this study is to deduct the factors for explaining the economic behavior of an Internet user who provides personal information notwithstanding the concern about an invasion of privacy based on the Information Privacy Calculus Theory and Communication Privacy Management Theory. Design/methodology/approach This study made a design of the research model by integrating the factors deducted from the computation theory of information privacy with the factors deducted from the management theory of communication privacy on the basis of the Dual-Process Theory. Findings According to the empirical analysis result, this study confirmed that the Privacy Concern about forms through the Perceived Privacy Risk derived from the Disposition to value Privacy. In addition, this study confirmed that the behavior of an Internet user involved in personal information offering occurs due to the Perceived Benefits contradicting the Privacy Concern.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.274-289
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• 2018

We examined the effects of socio-demographics and personality traits on online privacy concern. We investigated this relationship in general and across different Internet functions. Using a large, diverse, population-representative sample (N = 5,242), we found that females, educated, and wealthier individuals tend to be concerned with online privacy to a greater extent. Among personality traits, agreeableness and conscientiousness were generally associated with an increased probability of being concerned with online privacy. These results imply that socio-demographics and personality traits provide explanatory insights into online privacy concern.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.121-139
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• 2023

This study tried to identify factors affecting online activity before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, the effects of consumer innovativeness, self-esteem, and need for cognition on the activity of online media such as Internet and social media were investigated, and whether privacy concerns had a moderating effect. For this study, survey data from 2019(before the outbreak of COVID-19) to 2021(after the outbreak of COVID-19) of the 'Korea Media Panel Survey' surveyed by the Korea Information Society Development Institute was used for analysis. The research results that affect Internet activity are as follows. Before the outback of COVID-19, it was found that hedonic innovativeness and social innovativeness had a positive effect and cognitive innovativeness had a negative effect on increasing Internet activity. There was no moderating effect on privacy concerns. The period after the outbreak of COVID-19, need for cognition was found to have a positive effect on increasing social media activity. In addition, the moderating effect of privacy concerns was found in the relationship between need for cognition and Internet activity. There was no privacy concern effect before the outbreak of COVID-19, and the privacy concern effect appeared on functional innovation and need for cognition after the outbreak of COVID-19. This study aims to present various implications for companies to understand the characteristics of online consumers using the Internet and social media after the pandemic.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.151-157
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 한국미디어패널조사 데이터를 이용하여 프라이버시 염려가 인터넷 활동성에 미치는 영향에 있어 보안역량의 조절효과를 탐색하였다. 이를 위해 2(프라이버시 염려 고/저) × 2(보안역량 고/저) 집단 간 실험설계를 적용하여 총 4개의 집단을 대상으로 5가지 유형의 인터넷 활동성에 대한 분산분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과, 프라이버시 염려는 인터넷 활동성에 주 효과로 작용하는 것으로 나타났으며, 보안역량은 이 관계에서 조절적 역할을 하는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 프라이버시 염려가 있음에도 불구하고 인터넷을 통한 편익을 누리기 위해 개인정보 침해를 무릅쓰고 혹은 방어하며 인터넷 활동을 하기 때문인 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구는 최근 이슈가 되고 있는 프라이버시 역설에 대한 쟁점을 인터넷 활동의 유형 측면에서 조명하고 있다는데 학문적 의의가 있다. 또한 인터넷으로 연결된 사회 속에서 표현의 자유를 추구하는 개인들의 온라인 활동을 담보하기 위해서는 무엇보다 보안역량 제고를 위한 실무적 노력이 필요함을 시사한다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.93-107
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• 2012

Privacy-protective behavior can be classified into passive behavior and active behavior. Passive behavior includes refusal, misrepresentation, and removal, while word-of-mouth, complaint, and seeking for help belong to active behavior. Internet users in different countries may take different types of privacy-protective behavior because of cultural and social differences. This study analyzes the differences in Internet users' privacy-protective behavior between Korea and China. Korean Internet users take refusal, complaint, and seeking to protect their privacy information, while misrepresentation is not an option for Korean Internet users. Chinese Internet users take refusal, complaint, seeking, and misrepresentation to protect their privacy information. In Korea, passive behavior (refusal) is chosen more often than active behavior (complaint and seeking for help), while in China active behavior(complaint and seeking for help) is preferred to passive behavior (refusal and misrepresentation). The differences of privacy-protective behavior in the two countries may provide some implications for online companies, if they want to avoid the business risk due to privacy concerns and to take appropriate steps to deal with privacy-protective behavior by Internet users.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.107-119
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• 2013

본 연구는 왜 인터넷 사용자가 자신의 프라이버시 정보에 무관심한지를 설명하기 위해 수행되었다. 분석결과 프라이버시 무관심에 영향을 미치는 요인은 인지된 프라이버시 위험과 웹사이트 유용성으로 나타났다. 즉 개인정보 유출 경험이 있는 사람의 경우 그리고 해당 웹사이트가 유용하다고 느끼게 되는 경우 프라이버시 정보에 대해 무관심하다는 것을 알 수 있다. 따라서 개인정보에 대한 관심을 높이기 위해서 프라이버시 침해 경험자들을 대상으로 자신의 개인정보 프라이버시에 대한 중요성을 인식하도록 유도하는 방안을 수립하는 것이 중요하다.