Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2022

Zeitschrift: Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Bandnummer: 176

ISSN: 0040-1625

eISSN: 1873-5509

Open Access Status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121459

Verlag: Elsevier

Abstract: 
The use of smartphone apps has numerous advantages for app providers and users. However, the users of many smartphone apps are confronted with a trade-off between usage benefits and preferences for personal data protection. We investigate the acceptability of data sharing in different vignettes describing five types of these apps from key industries of the digital transformation. The vignettes are embedded in a representative survey for the German population (N =1,013). For each vignette we examine to what extent the acceptance of data sharing differs with respect to potential recipients, collected information attributes, and the promoted benefits of data sharing. We differentiate the promoted benefits in two treatments according to monetary (or personal) and environmental (or public) benefits. Our results show no treatment effects but significant differences in acceptance values for different recipients and information attributes. We further observe that participants with stronger green consumption values, participants with a stronger risk propensity, men, and younger participants show a higher acceptance towards data sharing in the described scenarios.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Cloos, J. and Mohr, S. (2022) Acceptance of data sharing in smartphone apps from key industries of the digital transformation: A representative population survey for Germany, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 176, Article 121459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121459

APA-Zitierstil: Cloos, J., & Mohr, S. (2022). Acceptance of data sharing in smartphone apps from key industries of the digital transformation: A representative population survey for Germany. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 176, Article 121459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121459