Chilling effects and the stock market response to the Snowden revelations

Rosso, Mark; Nasir, Abm; Farhadloo, Mohsen

doi:10.1177/1461444820924619

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“…Since 2014, there has been an evident decrease in Tor usage after an increase in 2013. This is probably related to a steep increase in users due to Snowden’s 2013 disclosure, which had a “chilling effect” (Rosso et al, 2020), and then the number of users declined to a relatively stable level (Hampson and Jardine, 2017). The trend of Google searches for “Tor”-related knowledge is consistent with the trends of Tor usage.…”

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Seeking anonymity on the Internet: The knowledge accumulation process and global usage of the Tor network

Chen

Jardine

Liu³

et al. 2022

New Media & Society

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The Onion Router (Tor) network is one of the most prominent technologies for accessing online resources while preserving anonymity. Effectively employing the technology is not a trivial process and involves the following steps: (1) motivated by needs, (2) becoming aware of and learning the technology, and (3) realizing desired purposes by usage. Using country-level panel data, this study examines the knowledge accumulation process through which motivated users eventually employ Tor. The results suggest that Tor is often searched in less free countries for censorship circumvention, while it is employed for Dark Web activities in more free countries. There is also an indirect relationship between being aware of the technology and its usage through how-to knowledge accumulation. This study is the first attempt to understand the role of knowledge accumulation in the global usage of Tor. The findings provide insights into the worldwide concerns of online privacy and Dark Web regulation.

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Seeking anonymity on the Internet: The knowledge accumulation process and global usage of the Tor network

Chen

Jardine

Liu³

et al. 2022

New Media & Society

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“…Atheism, Herpes, White Power). Also at the aggregate level of search volume, Rosso et al (2020) found a significant and lasting increase in the use of the DuckDuckGo search engine (whose unique value proposition is to not profile its users) directly following the NSA revelations.…”

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The Chilling Effects of Digital Dataveillance: A Theoretical Model and an Empirical Research Agenda

2022

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People's sense of being subject to digital dataveillance can cause them to restrict their digital communication behavior. Such a chilling effect is essentially a form of self-censorship in everyday digital media use with the attendant risks of undermining individual autonomy and well-being. This article combines the existing theoretical and limited empirical work on surveillance and chilling effects across fields with an analysis of novel data toward a research agenda. The institutional practice of dataveillance—the automated, continuous, and unspecific collection, retention, and analysis of digital traces—affects individual behavior. A mechanism-based causal model based on the theory of planned behavior is proposed for the micro level: An individual's increased sense of dataveillance causes their subjective probability assigned to negative outcomes of digital communication behavior to increase and attitudes toward this communication to become less favorable, ultimately decreasing the intention to engage in it. In aggregate and triggered through successive salience shocks such as data scandals, dataveillance is accordingly hypothesized to lower the baseline of free digital communication in a society through the chilling effects mechanism. From the developed theoretical model, a set of methodological consequences and questions for future studies are derived.

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“…The nature and scope of digital transformation is becoming an ethical concern of nations under the digital sovereignty 35 rubric. There is no less a concern at an individual level for self-sovereignty 36 in the face of overreach by national authorities 37 , and other private organizations 38 .…”

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Engineers as Agents of Technological Change: Ethical Challenges of Technology Adoption

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2024 South East Section Meeting Proceedings

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He has lectured at multiple universities including Georgia Tech., U. Maryland, GSU. His editorial experience includes both industry standards (e.g., ANSI, ETSI) , special issues of technical journals (e.g., IEEE Network, IEEE Communications), several book chapters, and the book: Ethics Law and Technology Adoption: Navigating Technology Adoption Challenges. He has worked professionally in four countries and is an author of more than 50 US patents and multiple conference and journal publications -see

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Chilling effects and the stock market response to the Snowden revelations

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

Seeking anonymity on the Internet: The knowledge accumulation process and global usage of the Tor network

Seeking anonymity on the Internet: The knowledge accumulation process and global usage of the Tor network

The Chilling Effects of Digital Dataveillance: A Theoretical Model and an Empirical Research Agenda

Engineers as Agents of Technological Change: Ethical Challenges of Technology Adoption

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