PRIVACY CONCERNS OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ON THE INTERNET: A STUDY IN BURSA

Yıl 2015, Cilt: 2 Sayı: 3, 334 - 347, 06.11.2015

Ali Acilar Hakan Olgun Aylin Gorur

Öz

The widespread use of computers and the Internet has provided many advantages to everyday life, but also created new opportunities for unethical and illegal acts. Today, online privacy is one of the main concerns of the Internet users. Therefore privacy issues on the internet have become an important topic in the literature. Even though there are significant numbers of articles which are the subject of privacy, a limited number of papers investigate online privacy issues in public sector. The main aim of this study is to explore online privacy concerns of public employees. For this reason a survey conducted among public employees of governorship of Bursa, one of the largest cities in Turkey, in 2014. The survey questionnaire is consisted of items to measure online privacy concerns and some demographic characteristics of study participants. The findings of this study suggest that the research participants have concerns (although not very high) in general related to the Internet use.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Privacy, privacy concern, Internet, public employees

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