Consumers' privacy concerns toward using location-based services: An exploratory framework and research proposal

Heng Xu; Hock Hai Teo

Consumers' privacy concerns toward using location-based services: An exploratory framework and research proposal

Heng Xu
, Hock Hai Teo

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Abstract

Privacy concerns associated with the use of Location-Based Services (LBS) may ultimately prevent consumers from gaining the anytime anywhere' convenience. Through a psychological control lens, we examine whether individual difference variables such as locus of control (LOC) could have moderating effects on the relationship between privacy concern and three privacy assurance mechanisms in the LBS context. The paper develops a preliminary research model which conceptualizes the moderating effects of LOC by extending Xu and Teo (2004)'s research model. With an explicit focus on LOC, this study will not only add an important piece of information to our understanding of consumers' reactions to LBS but also can help frame the ongoing policy and scholarly debate surrounding the relative effectiveness of technology, industry self-regulation and government legislation in ensuring consumers' privacy. We believe that our findings will be able to offer practical implications for the various players in the LBS landscape: merchants, wireless service providers, wireless device manufacturer, privacy advocates and legislators.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005
State	Published - 2005
Event	13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005 - Regensburg, Germany Duration: May 26 2005 → May 28 2005

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Name	Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

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Other	13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Regensburg
Period	5/26/05 → 5/28/05

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Information Systems

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Xu, H., & Teo, H. H. (2005). Consumers' privacy concerns toward using location-based services: An exploratory framework and research proposal. In Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005 (Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005).

Xu, Heng ; Teo, Hock Hai. / Consumers' privacy concerns toward using location-based services : An exploratory framework and research proposal. Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005. 2005. (Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005).

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Xu, H & Teo, HH 2005, Consumers' privacy concerns toward using location-based services: An exploratory framework and research proposal. in Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005. Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005, 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005, Regensburg, Germany, 5/26/05.

Consumers' privacy concerns toward using location-based services: An exploratory framework and research proposal. / Xu, Heng; Teo, Hock Hai.
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005. 2005. (Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005).

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