• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.45-65
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• 2008

The rapid growth of the Internet has increased the amount of transmission of personally identifiable information. At the same time, with new Internet related technologies, organizations are trying to collect and access more personal information than before, which in turn makes individuals concern more about their information privacy. For their successful businesses, organizations have tried to alleviate these concerns in two ways: (1) by offering privacy policies that promise certain level of privacy protection; (2) by offering benefits such as financial gains or convenience. In this paper, we interpret these actions in the context of the information processing theory of motivation. This paper follows Hann et al.(2007)'s methods to analyze Internet users privacy concerns in Korea and tries to compare the findings. Our research objectives are as follows: First, we analyze privacy concern mitigation strategies in the framework of the expectancy theory of motivation. Subsequently, we show how the expectancy theory based framework is linked o the conjoint analysis. We empirically validate the predictions that the means to mitigate privacy concerns are associated with positive valences resulting in an increase in motivational score. In order to accommodate real-life contexts, we investigate these means in trade-off situation, where an organization may only be able to offer partially complete privacy protection and/or promotions and/or convenience, While privacy protection (secondary use, improper access) are associated with positive valences, we also find that financial gains can significantly increase the individuals' motivational score of a website in Korea. One important implication of this empirical analysis is that organizations may possess means to actively manage the privacy concerns of Internet users. Our findings show that privacy policies are valued by users in Korea just as in the US or Singapore. Hence, organizations can capitalize on this, by stating their privacy policy more prominently. Also organizations would better think of strategies or means that may increase online users' willingness to provide personal information. Since financial incentives also significantly increase the individuals' motivational score of website participation, we can quantify the value of website privacy protection in terms of monetary gains. We find that Korean Internet users value the total privacy protection (protection against errors, improper access, and secondary use of personal information) as worthy as KW 25,550, which is about US 28. Having done this conjoint analysis, we next adopt cluster analysis methodology. We identify two distinct segments of Korea's internet users-privacy guardians and information sellers, and convenience seekers. The immediate implication of our study is that firms with online presence must differentiate their services to serve these distinct segments to best meet the needs of segments with differing trade-offs between money and privacy concerns. Information sellers are distinguished from privacy guardians by prior experience of information provision, To the extent that businesses cannot observe an individual's prior experience, they must use indirect methods to induce segmentation by self-selection as suggested in classic economics literature of price discrimination, Businesses could use monetary rewards to attract information sellers to provide personal information. One step forward from the societal trends that emphasize the need of legal protection of information privacy, our study wants to encourage organizations and related authorities to have the viewpoints to consider both importance of privacy protection and the necessity of information trade for the growth of e-commerce.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.149-156
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• 2019

정보기술의 활용이 보편화되면서 대중과 연구자 모두 정보 프라이버시 문제에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 이러한 문제에 대한 연구가 기하급수적으로 증가하면서 연구결과에 대한 전반적인 이해가 어려워졌다. 이에 따라 과거연구에 대한 체계적인 검토가 요구된다. 본 연구는 정보 프라이버시 연구에 핵심적인 네 가지 연구개념을 두 가지 연구모형으로 설정하고 기존 연구에서 수집된 데이터를 이용하여 실증 분석하였다. TSSEM이라는 정량적 메타분석 기법이 적용되었는데, 이 기법은 MASEM의 한 가지로서 구조방정식모형과 메타분석 기법을 통합하여 분석하는 기능을 제공한다. 분석결과는 위험 중심적 모형이 염려 중심적 모형과 비교하여 보다 높은 모형 적합도를 나타내었다. 본 연구의 결과는 전통적인 염려 중심적 모형의 설명력에 의문을 제시하며, 사용자의 프라이버시 정보 제공의도를 설명하기 위하여 위험 중심적 모형을 고려할 필요가 있다는 점을 시사한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.3356-3374
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• 2018

The healthcare and fitness wearable-device market is considered as the driving force of the entire wearable device market. However, there are concerns with respect to information privacy because wearable devices constantly collect sensitive data such as individuals' health information. Thus, there is a need for a comprehensive understanding from the perspective of information privacy concerns and related behavior. This study investigates factors considered in the privacy calculus of wearable fitness devices, and verifies differences obtained by the privacy calculus process according to the frequency of exercise. The results obtained from a survey of 248 undergraduate students in Korea revealed that service providers should consider users' interests and exercise characteristics in order to mitigate their privacy concerns and encourage continuous use of wearable devices. This study provides useful insights pertaining to users of wearable fitness devices, and targets researchers and practitioners.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.175-184
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• 2014

본 연구의 목적은 위치기반서비스에서 구매의도에 영향을 미치는 요인을 프라이버시-신뢰-행동의도 모형을 이용하여 분석하는 것이다. 연구의 목적을 달성하기 위해 위치기반서비스, 프라이버시-신뢰-행동의도 모형, 프라이버시 염려의 측정모형(CFIP)에 대한 이론적 배경을 바탕으로 연구모형과 가설을 설정하였다. 본 연구의 조사기간은 2014년 1월 21부터 3월 20일까지이며, 위치기반서비스 이용자들을 대상으로 설문지를 배포하였다. 설문지는 231개가 회수되었고, 이 중 불성실하게 응답한 21개를 제외한 210개의 설문지를 분석에 이용하였다. 분석결과, 첫째, 위치인지는 프라이버시 염려에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 프라이버시 염려는 신뢰에 부(-)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 마지막으로, 신뢰는 구매의도에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과는 위치기반서비스에서 프라이버시 염려 및 구매의도에 관한 다양한 시사점을 제공할 것이다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.203-214
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• 2020

오늘날 스마트 스피커는 점차 개인화되어 사용자들을 위해 특정 제품을 추천하는 추천 에이전트의 역할을 하고 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 스마트 스피커의 대화형 에이전트 맥락에서 '설명 기능'이 투명성, 인지된 신뢰, 사용자 만족도, 재사용 행동 의도, 프라이버시 위협, 추천 품질에 미치는 영향을 살펴보는 것이다. 또한 개인의 프라이버시 염려 수준이 평가에 영향을 미치는지 알아보기 위해 염려 수준을 사용자 구분을 위한 척도로 활용하였다. 연구결과, 설명이 있는 조건이 없는 조건 보다 모든 측정 변인에서 높게 평가되었음을 확인하였고, 프라이버시 염려 수준이 인지된 신뢰, 프라이버시 위협에 미치는 정적인 영향을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 스마트 스피커 맥락에서 설명 기능이 적용될 수 있다는 시사점과 프라이버시 역설 현상을 발견하였으며, 프라이버시 염려 수준에 따른 인지부조화의 가능성을 제시하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.788-793
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• 2004

Internet-based distribution of digital contents provides great opportunities for producers, distributors and consumers, but it may seriously threaten users' privacy. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems which one of the major issues, concern the protection of the ownership/copyright of digital content. However, the most recent DRM systems do not support the protection of the user's personal information. This paper examines the lack of privacy in DRM systems. We describe a privacy policy and user's privacy preferences model that protect each user's personal information from privacy violation by DRM systems. We allow DRM privacy agent to automatically negotiate between the DRM system policy and user's privacy preferences to be disclosed on behalf of the user. We propose an effective negotiation algorithm for the DRM system. Privacy rules are created following the negotiation process to control access of the user's personal information in the DRM system. The proposed privacy negotiation algorithm can be adapted appropriately to the existing DRM systems to solve the privacy problem effectively.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.55-79
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• 2012

LBS(Location-Based Service) is one of the smartphone application services which has been receiving great attention recently. Various applications of smartphone use LBS to provide innovative services. However, use of LBS raises privacy concerns because the location information of users is constantly exposed. Privacy calculus perspective attempts to understand the characteristics of the user's privacy. It is based on the risk-benefit analysis in the economics' perspective. That is, when the benefit expected through personal information disclosure is higher than risk, we are willing to provide personal information. This research suggested a research model based on the privacy calculus perspective to clarify the effect of information disclosure intention of smartphone LBS application users. Based on the main factors of privacy calculus, perception of privacy risk and privacy benefit, the relationship of the perceived value and the information disclosure intention was empirically analyzed by utilizing structural equation modeling(SEM) methodology. According to the results of the empirical analysis, it was found that all relations have statistically significant explanatory power except the relation between privacy concern and information disclosure intention. This study showed a strong evidence of antecedent factors based on privacy calculus of personal information disclosure in smartphone LBS applications.

• 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.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.711-720
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• 2020

This research aims to analyze the factors affecting the acceptance of social commerce, including performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social support, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, habitability, price saving orientation, and privacy concerns using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2). UTAUT2 has been examined and modified in various contexts. The research model studies the acceptance and use of technology in the context of customers. This study adopts a quantitative method using the partial least squares regression (PLS) approach involving 244 respondents. The respondents are users of social commerce in Indonesia. The result of this research indicates that social influence, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, habit, price value orientation, and privacy concerns have a significant effect on behavioral intention. On the other hand, performance expectancy and effort expectancy does not affect behavioral intention. Furthermore, price value has a significant effect on social commerce user behavior. Lastly, facilitating conditions and habits does not affect social commerce user behavior. This research contributes to the development of theory by examining an additional variable, which is privacy concern. This study is significant since social media and social commerce have grown exponentially nowadays. Implications of the results for the development of the theory (UTAUT2) and practice are discussed in the article.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.53-73
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• 2017

Frequent outbreak of intrusion of private information is occurring recently not only at portal sites but also in electronic information service of public agencies. Due to these intrusions, it is observed that the citizens tend to avoid providing their private information even to the service for public agencies. Therefore, the object of this research can be explained as demonstrating the influence of the intention of provision for private information to foster the selectronic information ervice of the public agencies. In order to achieve this, this research intends to demonstrate how the experience of the intrusion of the private information affects the concern about the privacy and how the information factor from the public electronic information service has influence on the reliability toward the public. The results showed that the experience of intrusion of privacy, awareness of the danger of privacy, and the sense protection of the information from the manager at public agencies have direct influence on the concern of privacy. Meanwhile, it has been verified that the awareness of information protection of a manager, the systemicity of information protection, and the surveillance and punishment of information protection have influence on the reliability of public agencies.