The Role of Gender Privacy in the Use of Cloud Computing Services
| Title | The Role of Gender Privacy in the Use of Cloud Computing Services |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2017 |
| Authors | Michalopoulou, Panayiota Efthymia, Kalloniatis, Christos |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the 21st Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Conference Location | New York, NY, USA |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-5355-7 |
| Keywords | cloud computing, Digital Disparity, Gender, Internet, Metrics, privacy, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, user behavior, user privacy in the cloud |
| Abstract | The present study's primary objective is to try to determine whether gender, combined with the educational background of the Internet users, have an effect on the way online privacy is perceived and practiced within the cloud services and specifically in social networking, e-commerce, and online banking. An online questionnaire was distributed through e-mail and the social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+). Our primary hypothesis is that an interrelationship may exist among a user's gender, educational background, and the way an online user perceives and acts regarding online privacy. An analysis of a representative sample of Greek Internet users revealed that there is an effect by gender on the online users' awareness regarding online privacy, as well as on the way they act upon it. Furthermore, we found that a correlation exists, as well regarding the Educational Background of the users and the issue of online privacy. |
| URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3139367.3139397 |
| DOI | 10.1145/3139367.3139397 |
| Citation Key | michalopoulou_role_2017 |