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Employees’ privacy perceptions: exploring the dimensionality and antecedents of personal data sensitivity and willingness to disclose

  • The processing of employees’ personal data is dramatically increasing, yet there is a lack of tools that allow employees to manage their privacy. In order to develop these tools, one needs to understand what sensitive personal data are and what factors influence employees’ willingness to disclose. Current privacy research, however, lacks such insights, as it has focused on other contexts in recent decades. To fill this research gap, we conducted a cross-sectional survey with 553 employees from Germany. Our survey provides multiple insights into the relationships between perceived data sensitivity and willingness to disclose in the employment context. Among other things, we show that the perceived sensitivity of certain types of data differs substantially from existing studies in other contexts. Moreover, currently used legal and contextual distinctions between different types of data do not accurately reflect the subtleties of employees’ perceptions. Instead, using 62 different data elements, we identified four groups of personal data that better reflect the multi-dimensionality of perceptions. However, previously found common disclosure antecedents in the context of online privacy do not seem to affect them. We further identified three groups of employees that differ in their perceived data sensitivity and willingness to disclose, but neither in their privacy beliefs nor in their demographics. Our findings thus provide employers, policy makers, and researchers with a better understanding of employees’ privacy perceptions and serve as a basis for future targeted research on specific types of personal data and employees.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author:Jan Tolsdorf, Delphine Reinhardt, Luigi Lo Iacono
Parent Title (English):Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Issue:2
Number of pages:27
First Page:68
Last Page:94
ISSN:2299-0984
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-61328
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2022-0036
Publisher:Sciendo
Publishing Institution:Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Date of first publication:2022/03/03
Copyright:© 2022 Jan Tolsdorf et al., published by SciendoThis work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
Funding:This research was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the contract number 16KIS0899.
Keyword:employee privacy; factor analysis; latent class analysis; structural equation modeling
Departments, institutes and facilities:Fachbereich Informatik
Institut für Cyber Security & Privacy (ICSP)
Projects:TrUSD - Verbundprojekt: Transparente und selbstbestimmte Ausgestaltung der Datennutzung im Unternehmen, Teilvorhaben: Konzeptionierung, Implementierung und Evaluation von Privacy Dashboards im Arbeitnehmerdatenschutz (DE/BMBF/16KIS0899)
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC):0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 005 Computerprogrammierung, Programme, Daten
Entry in this database:2022/03/09
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0