A comparative study of location-sharing privacy preferences in the United States and China

Lin, Jialiu; Benisch, Michael; Sadeh, Norman; Niu, Jianwei; Hong, Jason I.; Lu, Biao; Guo, Shaohui

doi:10.1007/s00779-012-0610-6

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“…Contrary to other studies [17], we did not find any statistically significant influence of gender on location sharing preferences.…”

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 99%

“…Contrary to other studies [17], the analysis of our data does not suggest any gender difference along the sharing preferences dimensions. An ANOVA run using gender as a factor on the need for socialization and the various location sharing preferences did not reveal any significant difference between males and females.…”

Section: Sharing Preferences and Individual Traitscontrasting

confidence: 99%

“…The survey contained a list of places in which the participant has remained during the day for more than 15 minutes, along with the arrival and exit time. The locations tracked by the positioning system of participants' smartphones were aggregated using the same algorithm used in [17] and [4]. They were presented both as a map and as a list.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lin [17] compared Chinese and American participants' attitudes and found that Chinese participants seem more conservative. They also reported cultural differences in disclosing location at "home" and at "work" and gender differences: Chinese female participants were more conservative than Chinese male while they did not find differences in sharing between US male and female but they found that US female participants show different attitudes with different recipients: a more open attitude toward close friends and friends on social network while they are more conservative with University community and advertisers.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is possible to read online the text of the survey in order to better ponder how the survey might have influenced the collected data. We presented only places in which the participant has remained for more than 15 minutes by using the same method used in [17] and [4] for aggregating GPS points. This procedure excluded uses of location sharing for coordinating meetups or showing others how far you are from reaching a destination.…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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