Hi, Thanks for the link, will give the full document a read soon.
"Pew" in the US did a recent survey on young peoples attitudes to privacy, and they found that young people are as worried about theirs as their adult counterparts: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Reputation-Management.aspx dannah boyd from M$ research gives a nice summary of the report here: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/05/26/pew-research-confirms-that-youth-care-about-their-reputation.html The research you linked to got mentioned in the reg (not a fan of), which is pseudo mainstream-press I guess: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/privacy_survey/ Thanks for the link, will no longer have to cite the reg ;) Mischa On 2 Jun 2010, at 05:12, Hellekin O. Wolf wrote: > I was pointed to a paper "How Different are Young Adults from Older > Adults When it Comes to Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies?" > > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1589864 > > Two relevant points from the abstract for those who won't read it, > beyond the fact that the study didn't find significant differences > between young older adults regarding privacy (emphasis mine): > > 42 percent of young Americans answered all of our five online privacy > questions *incorrectly*. 88 percent answered only two or fewer > correctly. The problem is even more pronounced when presented with > offline privacy issues – post hoc analysis showed that young Americans > were more likely to answer no questions correctly than any other age > group. > > We conclude then that young-adult Americans have *an aspiration for > increased privacy* even while they participate in an online reality > that is optimized to increase their revelation of personal data. > > == > hk >
