The role of information systems research in shaping the future of information privacy

Mobile health technology adoption across generations: Narrowing the digital divide

“…This study makes several contributions to privacy and social inclusion literatures. First, acknowledging the contextual nature of privacy (Nissenbaum, ), this study illuminates the role of privacy in the health context (Bélanger & Xu, ). The integrated findings provide several important insights; (1) older individuals in this study express a strong desire for health data privacy, (2) any secondary use or access is deemed a privacy violation, and (3) individuals abstain from m‐health adoption to preserve their privacy or limit use to nonsensitive issues.…”

“…Many gaps persist in the broader privacy literature including organizational and societal research (Bélanger & Xu, ). While this study does not adopt an organizational or societal approach, older citizens are an important and often marginalized group within society, who stand to benefit from m‐health but resist adopting.…”

“…Recent technological advances that enhance data collection and analysis capabilities represent both opportunities for improving decision making and risks to individuals' privacy (Bélanger & Xu, ). Indeed, increased data collection triggers a decrease in individuals' control over their information privacy (Conger, Pratt, & Loch, ).…”

“…The study builds on prior privacy research to examine the role of privacy in the context of emerging health technologies (Conger et al, ) and moves beyond the focus on technology adoption models by using protection motivation theory (PMT) to conduct a granular examination of the influence of privacy concerns, trust, and risk beliefs on older citizens' m‐health adoption. The paper also departs from the legacy of single method quantitative studies within privacy research (Bélanger & Xu, ) and uses a 2‐stage sequential mixed methods design to develop deep insights into m‐health adoption among this group from a cross‐national perspective (Martin & Murphy, ). Thus, the paper contributes to privacy and social inclusion literature in the health context (Xu & Bélanger, ), among an older adult cohort (Li, Gupta, Zhang, & Sarathy, ), while also deepening understanding of adoption beyond a binary decision by elucidating the reasons why individuals do not adopt, conditions imposed on future adoption, and making recommendations to narrow the digital divide.…”

The Mobile Privacy-Security Knowledge Gap Model: Understanding Behaviors

“…Indeed, users often feel overwhelmed with how to control others' access to their personal information [19]. This is crucial because citizens' understanding of information security and privacy threats, and knowledge of the tools they can use to protect themselves, are necessary to provide a more secure society, particularly since individuals are the weakest link in security [12] and the last line of defense in information privacy [20].…”