Antecedents and Outcomes of Information Privacy Concerns in the Saudi Arabia Social Networking Context

Antecedents and Outcomes of Information Privacy Concerns in the Saudi Arabia Social Networking Context

Mohammed A. Alarefi
DOI: 10.4018/IJCRMM.2021070103
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Abstract

Online information privacy has become a developing social worry that may hinder individuals' social site associations. The motivation behind this investigation is to dissect the effect of an err toward privacy and the social presence of a website on a person's privacy concerns about the website. Data were collected from 650 respondents in Saudi Arabia. The findings indicate a significance influence of informativness, social presence, utility of website, perceived severity, and self-efficacy on website-specific privacy concerns. Furthermore, privacy concerns have a significant influence on behavioural intentions. This study also extends the information privacy literature through the analysis of the drivers and outcomes of online privacy concerns in the social network context.
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Informal communication in the online circle has gotten omnipresent also, part of numerous clients' everyday life. Measurements from Facebook, for model, show that the interpersonal interaction site had an normal of 1.37 billion day by day dynamic clients in September 2017 (Facebook, 2018). One of the unintended outcomes of utilizing OSN is the danger to data security, for example, "undesirable contact and provocation, weakness to stalkers or paedophiles, utilization of private information by an outsider, hacking, and data fraud" (Wilson, Gosling, and Graham, 2012, p. 212). Turning into a survivor of cyberbullying is likewise a possible repercussion of data protection infringement in OSN settings. Being digital tormented through OSN, particularly for young people, can be extremely troubling and can prompt social detachment and even self-destruction (Hood and Duffy, 2017; Ochoa et al., 2011).

The discoveries from an investigation by Fogel and Nehmad (2009) proposed that OSN clients by and large show higher danger taking mentalities (giving individual data, for example, telephone numbers and home addresses) in contrast with people who don't utilize OSN. Acquisti and Gross (2006) found that non-Facebook clients had higher than normal security concerns. Also, it is accepted that uncovering individual data is more incessant in OSN analysed to disconnected correspondences (Nguyen, Bin, and Campbell, 2011). It can, in this way, be accepted that clients' protection mentality in OSN is connected to the intentions in or the delights they get from utilizing OSN.

The effect of OSN satisfaction/thought processes on an assortment of subjects for example, strictness (Nyland and Near, 2007), reluctance to impart, in actuality (Sheldon, 2008a), disconnected political and municipal interest (Park, Kee, and Valenzuela, 2009), OSN habit (Masur, Reinecke, Ziegele, and Quiring, 2014; Sofiah, Zobidah, Bolong, and Nizam, 2011), social capital (Papacharissi and Mendelson, 2011), duration of expectation to utilize OSN (Ku, Chen, and Zhang, 2013a, 2013b; Chiu and Huang, 2015; Hsu, Tien, Lin, and Chang, 2015; Oliveira and Huertas, 2015), has been inspected. In any case, the impact of the intentions in OSN use on data protection concerns has been minimal considered. This is one hole we look to address in this paper.

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