ABSTRACT

Electric scooter (e-scooter) sharing services have redefined the concept of urban transportation and development for cities around the world. These services, however, have raised concerns regarding information privacy in the wake of allegations that they are used by corporations and even government bodies to collect information. We introduce a new dimension of privacy concerns (i.e., privacy concerns for traceable information: PCTI) and utilize the antecedent-privacy concern-outcome (APCO) macro model to propose a research model for the relationships among privacy experiences and awareness, usage and geographical regularities, PCTI, and information privacy protective responses (IPPR). Our analysis suggests that privacy experiences and privacy awareness remain as salient antecedents and that geographical regularity should be included as a new antecedent for PCTI. This study contributes to the literature on information privacy in the sharing economy and provides implications for both stakeholders of e-scooter platforms and policymakers for urban transportation and IT-enabled development.

摘要

电动滑板车（e-scooter）共享服务为世界各地的城市重新定义了城市交通和发展的概念。然而，在公司甚至政府机构使用这些服务来收集信息的指控之后，这些服务引起了人们对信息隐私的担忧。我们引入了隐私问题的新维度（即可追溯信息的隐私问题：PCTI），并利用先行隐私问题（APCO）宏观模型提出隐私体验与意识、使用和地理之间关系的研究模型。规律、PCTI 和信息隐私保护响应 (IPPR)。我们的分析表明，隐私体验和隐私意识仍然是重要的前因，地理规律性应作为 PCTI 的新前因。本研究为共享经济中的信息隐私文献做出了贡献，并为电动滑板车平台的利益相关者和城市交通和 IT 支持的发展政策制定者提供了启示。