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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Privacy and Security Perceptions of European Citizens: A Test of the Trade-Off Model

Authors : Michael Friedewald, Marc van Lieshout, Sven Rung, Merel Ooms, Jelmer Ypma

Published in: Privacy and Identity Management for the Future Internet in the Age of Globalisation

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Abstract

This paper considers the relationship between privacy and security and, in particular, the traditional “trade-off” paradigm that argues that citizens might be willing to sacrifice some privacy for more security. Academics have long argued against the trade-off paradigm, but these arguments have often fallen on deaf ears. Based on data gathered in a pan-European survey we show that both privacy and security are important to European citizens and that there is no significant correlation between people’s valuation of privacy and security.

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Footnotes
1
These and other analyses of the survey data can be found in [6].
 
2
E.g. in the context of environmentalism consumers often state a high importance of environmental protection that is not reflected in their actual behaviour [11].
 
3
Croatia had not acceded to the European Union at the time of the project planning.
 
4
While this holds on the European level, different results are found when investigating on a country level. In most countries, the construct of privacy is separate from security, although the general and personal security items overlap in many cases [6].
 
5
Even though we are using a categorical tt scale for the constructs, they can be treated like numerical, continuous variables due to the high number of manifestations (>100).
 
6
Another ongoing research project has come to similar empirical findings, altough using a different methdolology [16].
 
7
The most notable is maybe the European Union’s “Stockholm programme” that states “[t]he challenge will be to ensure respect for fundamental freedoms and integrity while guaranteeing security in Europe” [5, p. 4].
 
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Metadata
Title
Privacy and Security Perceptions of European Citizens: A Test of the Trade-Off Model
Authors
Michael Friedewald
Marc van Lieshout
Sven Rung
Merel Ooms
Jelmer Ypma
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Privacy and Identity Management for the Future Internet in the Age of Globalisation

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-18620-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-18621-4

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18621-4_4

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