In today’s Internet reliant services, the issue of users’ information privacy awareness is being raised. Despite the fact that in many cases internet users claim to be cognizant of privacy issues, they tend to jeopardize their privacy and take no actions to protection it. This paper reports a systematic literature review of existing studies related to Internet users’ information privacy awareness, towards enhancing respective initiatives and defining the attributes that a user should have so as to be privacy aware. We created a five-concept classification framework for the research topics that the academic community raises as important to be further investigated and the main challenges inhibiting information privacy awareness, and we classified all the selected papers according to this framework. Based on the analysis of the literature, we identify five main attributes that constitute a “Profile for the Information Privacy Aware User”, stemming from the classification framework, and further, we suggest the way this profile can be beneficial for internet users, Internet providers and designers of privacy awareness enhancing technologies. Additionally, we highlight research gaps and we provide useful insights for future research, such as the need for a concrete definition (theme 1), the need for the proposal of privacy preventive technologies (theme 3 and 4) and the need for investigation of information privacy awareness in multiple contexts (theme 5).

在当今的Internet相关服务中，正在引起用户信息隐私意识的问题。尽管事实上在许多情况下，互联网用户都声称意识到隐私问题，但是他们倾向于危害其隐私，并且不采取任何措施来保护它。本文对与互联网用户的信息隐私意识相关的现有研究进行了系统的文献综述，以期增强各自的主动性并定义用户应该具有的意识隐私的属性。我们为学术界提出的有待进一步研究的重要主题和阻碍信息隐私意识的主要挑战创建了一个五概念分类框架，并根据此框架对所有入选论文进行了分类。根据文献分析，我们从分类框架中识别出构成“信息隐私感知用户配置文件”的五个主要属性，此外，我们建议此配置文件可以对互联网用户，互联网提供商和隐私意识增强技术设计者有所帮助。此外，我们突出了研究差距，并为将来的研究提供了有用的见解，例如需要具体定义（主题1），建议保护隐私技术（主题3和4）以及调查信息的需求在多种情况下的隐私意识（主题5）。互联网提供商和隐私意识增强技术的设计者。此外，我们突出了研究差距，并为将来的研究提供了有用的见解，例如需要具体定义（主题1），建议保护隐私技术（主题3和4）以及调查信息的需求在多种情况下的隐私意识（主题5）。互联网提供商和隐私意识增强技术的设计者。此外，我们突出了研究差距，并为将来的研究提供了有用的见解，例如需要具体定义（主题1），建议保护隐私技术（主题3和4）以及调查信息的需求在多种情况下的隐私意识（主题5）。