TY - GEN
T1 - Attitudes Towards the Use of COVID-19 Apps and Its Associated Factors
AU - Wang, Tian
AU - Bashir, Masooda
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Since early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has been significantly changing people’s daily lives as social activities are limited to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus. New technologies, especially mobiles apps, have been widely applied to help with reducing the spread of the pandemic. However, although these apps bring many benefits, it also raises privacy issues given the amount of user information being collected and shared. The goal of this study is to understand individuals’ attitudes towards the privacy concerns on using COVID-19 apps, and their expectations on the privacy protections. By conducting the survey and collecting responses, results found that majority of the participants expressed privacy concerns on COVID-19 apps, and participants with different socioeconomic status may have different levels of willingness to use the app. Results from this study not only provide guidance for the government and app service providers on the implementation of appropriate safeguards, but also address on the needs of privacy protections for the vulnerable groups.
AB - Since early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has been significantly changing people’s daily lives as social activities are limited to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus. New technologies, especially mobiles apps, have been widely applied to help with reducing the spread of the pandemic. However, although these apps bring many benefits, it also raises privacy issues given the amount of user information being collected and shared. The goal of this study is to understand individuals’ attitudes towards the privacy concerns on using COVID-19 apps, and their expectations on the privacy protections. By conducting the survey and collecting responses, results found that majority of the participants expressed privacy concerns on COVID-19 apps, and participants with different socioeconomic status may have different levels of willingness to use the app. Results from this study not only provide guidance for the government and app service providers on the implementation of appropriate safeguards, but also address on the needs of privacy protections for the vulnerable groups.
KW - COVID-19 apps
KW - Privacy protections
KW - Socioeconomic factors
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-05563-8_31
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-05563-8_31
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85133246054
SN - 9783031055621
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 492
EP - 501
BT - HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust - 4th International Conference, HCI-CPT 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Moallem, Abbas
PB - Springer
T2 - 4th International Conference on HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, HCI-CPT 2022 Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022
Y2 - 26 June 2022 through 1 July 2022
ER -