Purpose

“Smart devices think you're “too lazy” to opt out of privacy defaults” was the headline of a recent news report indicating that individuals might be too lazy to stop disclosing their private information and therefore to protect their information privacy. In current privacy research, privacy concerns and self-disclosure are central constructs regarding protecting privacy. One might assume that being concerned about protecting privacy would lead individuals to disclose less personal information. However, past research has shown that individuals continue to disclose personal information despite high privacy concerns, which is commonly referred to as the privacy paradox. This study introduces laziness as a personality trait in the privacy context, asking to what degree individual laziness influences privacy issues.

Design/methodology/approach

After conceptualizing, defining and operationalizing laziness, the authors analyzed information collected in a longitudinal empirical study and evaluated the results through structural equation modeling.

Findings

The findings show that the privacy paradox holds true, yet the level of laziness influences it. In particular, the privacy paradox applies to very lazy individuals but not to less lazy individuals.

Research limitations/implications

With these results one can better explain the privacy paradox and self-disclosure behavior.

Practical implications

The state might want to introduce laws that not only bring organizations to handle information in a private manner but also make it as easy as possible for individuals to protect their privacy.

Originality/value

Based on a literature review, a clear research gap has been identified, filled by this research study.

中文翻译：

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懒惰作为隐私悖论的解释：纵向实证调查

目的

“智能设备认为你“太懒”而不能选择退出隐私默认设置”是最近新闻报道的标题，表明个人可能懒得停止披露他们的私人信息，从而保护他们的信息隐私。在当前的隐私研究中，隐私问题和自我披露是关于保护隐私的核心结构。人们可能会认为，担心保护隐私会导致个人披露更少的个人信息。然而，过去的研究表明，尽管存在高度隐私问题，但个人仍会继续披露个人信息，这通常被称为隐私悖论。本研究将懒惰作为隐私背景下的一种人格特征引入，询问个人懒惰在多大程度上影响隐私问题。

设计/方法/方法

在对惰性进行概念化、定义和操作之后，作者分析了纵向实证研究中收集的信息，并通过结构方程模型评估了结果。

发现

研究结果表明，隐私悖论是正确的，但懒惰程度会影响它。特别是，隐私悖论适用于非常懒惰的人，但不适用于不太懒惰的人。

研究限制/影响

有了这些结果，我们可以更好地解释隐私悖论和自我披露行为。

实际影响

国家可能希望引入法律，不仅让组织以私人方式处理信息，而且让个人尽可能容易地保护他们的隐私。

原创性/价值

根据文献回顾，本研究确定了一个明确的研究空白，并填补了空白。