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Three interpretations of the privacy paradox guiding instructional design

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Drawing on Kokolakis (2017), the article organizes the privacy paradox—the inconsistency between stated privacy concerns and observed behavior—into three interpretations: (1) surveys are the wrong methodology and most people have only vague concerns, so behavior should be monitored; (2) users lack information about how their data are captured, stored and used, so invisible data flows should be made visible; (3) the paradox exists as a positive privacy vs. utility trade-off. The authors used these interpretations to determine their instructional approach, translating them into letting participants experience first-hand the exposure of data they were unaware of having exposed.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Awareness interventions should address factual knowledge of how technologies operate, not only lists of do's and don'ts
  • Relevance must be tied to personal situations where sensitivity and visibility of data are at stake

Constraints

  • The theoretical debate on the existence of the privacy paradox is still open; different interpretations may explain different users
  • Conceptualizing privacy risks is inherently challenging, depending on technical, cultural and subjective factors

Target Learners

  • young Internet users aged 11–20

Learning Goals

  • privacy awareness
  • informed decisions about personal data disclosure

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Key Sources

  • Luca Botturi, Tiffany Fioroni, Chiara Beretta, Davide Andreoletti, Alessandro Ferrari, Felipe Cardoso, Anna Picco-Schwendener, Suzanna Marazza, Silvia Giordano. (2024). The iBuddy experience: A digital simulation-based approach to enhance secondary school students' privacy awareness. Education Tech Research Dev 72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-023-10309-x
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title Three interpretations of the privacy paradox guiding instructional design
description Drawing on Kokolakis (2017), the article organizes the privacy paradox—the inconsistency between stated privacy concerns and observed behavior—into three interpretations: (1) surveys are the wrong methodology and most...
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