Kiyoshi Murata    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Commerce    Position   Professor
Date	2016/12/14
Presentation Theme	An International Comparison of Students Attitudes to Privacy
Conference	The Asian Privacy Scholars Network 5th International Conference
Promoters	Asian Privacy Scholars Network
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Collaborative
Venue	The University of Auckland
Publisher and common publisher	Andrew A. Adams, Kiyoshi Murata, Yasunori Fukuta and Ana Maria Lara Palma
Details	As reported in previous work (Adams et al. 2016) a survey of university students inspired by the Pew (Desilver 2014) survey on attitudes to Snowden's actions in revealing the surveillance of the US' NSA and the UK's GCHQ was carried out in multiple countries in late 2014 and early 2015. Surveys in Germany, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, New Zealand and Japan were carried out by academics in those countries while the core Japanese team deployed the survey additionally in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. In addition to questions regarding knowledge of and attitudes to Snowden and government surveillance, the survey also asked respondents for their knowledge of and attitude to various issues of privacy. This talk will present statistical analyses and international comparisons of the answers to those questions. Questions for which the answer swill be presented include: - A cross-tabulated relationship between belief in the importance of the right to privacy and the understanding of that right. - A cross-tabulated comparison of Internet and non-Internet related activities and their threats to privacy. - The relative and absolute measures of the privacy threats from various technologies, including Internet of Things-related technologies (Smart Meters; Home Automation; Personal Health Monitoring); online services such as social media and ecommerce; personal computers, tablet and smartphones. - The relative and absolute measures of the privacy threats from various groups including other individuals, commercial organisations, non-profit (e.g. health or educational establishments) and government agencies (including law enforcement and others).