Do privacy and security regulations need a status update? Perspectives from an intergenerational survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The importance of health privacy protections in the era of the "Facebook Generation" has been called into question. The ease with which younger people share personal information about themselves has led to the assumption that they are less concerned than older generations about the privacy of their information, including health information. We explored whether survey respondents' views toward health privacy suggest that efforts to strengthen privacy protections as health information is moved online are unnecessary.

Methods

Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk), which is well-known for recruitment for survey research, we distributed a 45-item survey to individuals in the U.S. to assess their perspectives toward privacy and security of online and health information

SUBMITTER: Pereira S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5604938 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature