The Price of Convenience: Developing a Framework for Analysing Privacy Sensitivity in the Adoption of Wireless Applications

This paper reports a preliminary cycle of structured case analysis of personal privacy sensitivity in respect of wireless applications. This empirical cycle, interposed between the theoretic development of a conceptual framework which we have called the “Price of Convenience” Model (Ng-Kruelle, Swatman, Rebne and Hampe 2002) and a series of socio-technical studies in the field which will form the main body of our research programme, comprises a qualitative content analysis of a sample of reports published within the practitioner and public media over the period 1999-2002. The aim of this cycle of research is testing and refinement of the Price of Convenience model as a conceptual framework for our continuing study.

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