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    Understanding information disclosure behaviour in Australian facebook users

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    Access Status
    Open access
    Authors
    Newk-Fon Hey Tow, William
    Dell, Peter
    Venable, John
    Date
    2008
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Citation
    Newk-Fon Hey Tow, William and Dell, Peter and Venable, John. 2008. Understanding information disclosure behaviour in Australian facebook users, in Mills, A. and Huff, S. (ed), 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Dec 3 2008. Christchurch, New Zealand: Australasian Conference on Information Systems
    Source Title
    19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems
    Source Conference
    ACIS 2008
    ISBN
    9780473145286
    Faculty
    Curtin Business School
    School of Information Systems
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30952
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The advent of social networking websites presents further opportunities for criminals to obtain information for use in identity theft, cyber-stalking, and worse activities. This paper presents exploratory research investigating why users of social networking websites willingly disclose personal information and what sorts of information they provide (or not). The study employed an ethnographic approach of participation in the online community and interviews of community members, combined with a quantitative survey. The findings show that users are often simply not aware of the issues or feel that the risk to them personally is very low. The paper recommends that government agencies or social networking websites themselves conduct campaigns to inform the public of these issues and that social networking websites consider removing some facilities. The study was conducted in an Australian context and focussed on the popular Facebook website.

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