“…Early efforts focused on attitudes toward incursions into a felt sphere of privacy, with some studies describing the levels of these attitudes across broad populations (e.g., Harris/Equifax, 1993;1995; and others examining differences across demographic characteristics (Graeff & Harmon, 2002;Wang & Petrison, 1993). Recent research has also focused on technology, often the Internet, and its impact on felt privacy deprivation (Hoffman & Novak, 1996;Miyazaki & Fernandez, 2000;Mascarenhas, Kesavan, & Bernacchi, 2003). Still other researchers delved deeper into the origins and characteristics of the concept of privacy itself by exploring it from a legal/rights basis (cf.…”