Online information disclosure does not imply a lack of concern for privacy

Evidence

I found no correlation between how much someone cares about privacy and the amount of information they put online. For instance, Melissa Gira Grant reveals a great deal about her sex life, but is very protective of what she chooses not to share. Frequent tweeters are upset if a friend’s tweet publicizes something they did not want disclosed. These findings are supported by other empirical studies showing that information disclosure does not imply a lack of concern for privacy. People employ strategies like withholding certain pieces of information, monitoring their friends’ use of social media, adopting varying definitions of privacy, and editing their own lifestream in order to maintain a level of privacy they are comfortable with. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 640

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the dimensional model of privacy strategies — withholding, monitoring, varying definitions, editing — as a field vocabulary for privacy-online.
• XREF: Connects to the ‘privacy paradox’ debates in media studies and to danah boyd’s work on privacy practices among teens. — connects to: Information sharing online functions as publicity, not privacy loss — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 530; Privacy breaches are better framed as choices for publicity than as naive disclosure. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 604; Revealing more online can paradoxically conceal what one keeps private — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 624 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Privacy is fundamentally about decision rights over self-disclosure #corroborates (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 283