EAGER: Collaborative: Mapping Privacy and Surveillance Dynamics in Emerging Mobile Ecosystems: Practices and Contexts in the Netherlands and US

移动技术的日益普及给用户带来了独特的隐私和监控挑战。这些问题是全球性的，但用户、组织和政府应对这些挑战的方式因隐私方面的文化规范而异。这个跨文化项目评估了美国和荷兰的移动用户在使用移动应用程序时如何思考和决定他们的隐私。该项目的主要目标是告知在数字时代对隐私的思考方式和与数字自我相关的实际实施方式，强调隐私、披露、移动性和监视之间的紧张关系。此外，本研究强调了不同法律和文化框架下的隐私实践，为广泛的政策决策提供了重要启示。该项目与荷兰伊拉斯谟大学的研究人员合作，分为三个阶段。第一阶段对三个新兴移动生态系统的隐私意识和实践进行初步了解：健康和健身追踪（如Fitbit）、移动消息应用（如Whatsapp）和智能数字个人助理（如Siri）。在这些发现的基础上，第二阶段涉及使用隐私小插曲进行跨文化数据收集和分析，从而可以识别和比较不同背景和文化的个人隐私规范。第三阶段的重点是向主要利益攸关方和决策者传播研究结果，并建立一个由活跃在这一领域的研究人员组成的国际工作组。在两个有着截然不同的隐私文化概念的国家中，隐私是如何被概念化和实施的，这一重点扩展了我们对移动隐私的语境本质的理解，“使海伦·尼森鲍姆（Helen Nissenbaum）关于隐私作为语境完整性的工作得以扩展”，同时也为采用隐私设计框架的研究人员和设计师提供了实际意义。

The increasing ubiquity of mobile technologies creates unique privacy and surveillance challenges for users. These problems are global, but the way users, organizations, and governments approach these challenges varies based on cultural norms around privacy. This cross-cultural project evaluates how mobile users in the U.S. and the Netherlands think about and make decisions about their privacy when using mobile apps. The project's primary goal is to inform both ways of thinking about privacy in the digital age and practical implementations that pertain to the digital self, with an emphasis on tensions between privacy, disclosure, mobility and surveillance. Furthermore, this study highlights privacy practices across different legal and cultural frameworks, providing important implications for broad-based policy decisions.In collaboration with researchers at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, this project has three phases. Phase 1 develops a preliminary understanding of privacy awareness and practices across three emerging mobile ecosystems: health and fitness tracking (e.g., Fitbit), mobile messaging apps (e.g., Whatsapp), and intelligent digital personal assistants (e.g., Siri). Building on these findings, Phase 2 involves cross-cultural data collection and analysis using privacy vignettes, which allows for identification and comparison of individuals' privacy norms across contexts and cultures. Phase 3 focuses on dissemination of findings to key stakeholders and policymakers, and building an international working group of researchers active in this space. The focus on unpacking how privacy is conceptualized and implemented across two countries with very different cultural conceptions of privacy expands our understanding of the contextual nature of mobile privacy "enabling an extension of Helen Nissenbaum's work on privacy as contextual integrity" while also providing practical implications for researchers and designers employing a Privacy by Design framework.