As news headlines report on high‐profile online privacy breaches and the potential negative consequences for users, users are becoming concerned about their privacy. While much research has focused on the concerns of younger generations, few studies have investigated older adults, specifically those aged 65+ years. This study analyzes in‐depth interviews with 40 older adults living in East York, Toronto, Canada, to investigate their online privacy concerns and the strategies they use to mitigate these concerns. We find that East York older adults are mostly concerned about security privacy concerns followed by institutional privacy concerns and only minimally concerned about social privacy. The greatest concerns included information misuse by unknown others and unauthorized access to their personal information. We found that, for some older adults, their high privacy concerns precluded them from taking full advantage of the potential benefits of digital media. East York older adults varied considerably in their use of privacy protection strategies; some older adults used no strategies, while others were eager to protect their privacy using all strategies at their disposal.

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加拿大东约克市老年人的在线隐私问题和隐私保护策略

随着新闻头条报道了引人注目的在线隐私泄露事件以及对用户的潜在负面影响，用户越来越关注其隐私。尽管许多研究都集中在年轻一代的关注上，但很少有研究调查老年人，特别是65岁以上的老年人。这项研究分析了对居住在加拿大多伦多东约克市的40位老年人的深度访谈，以调查他们的在线隐私问题以及他们用来缓解这些问题的策略。我们发现，东约克郡的老年人主要关注安全隐私问题，其次是机构隐私问题，而仅关注社会隐私。最大的担忧包括未知他人滥用信息以及未经授权访问其个人信息。我们发现，对于一些老年人，他们对隐私的高度关注使他们无法充分利用数字媒体的潜在优势。东约克的老年人在使用隐私保护策略方面存在很大差异；一些老年人没有使用任何策略，而另一些则渴望使用所有可用策略来保护自己的隐私。