Privacy4ICTD in India: Exploring Perceptions, Attitudes and Awareness about ICT Use
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Niharika Sachdeva

TL;DR
This large-scale study investigates Indian citizens' privacy perceptions and attitudes towards ICT, revealing key insights into their concerns, trust levels, and demographic differences to inform policy and technology adoption.
Contribution
It provides the first comprehensive benchmark of privacy perceptions among Indian users across multiple ICT platforms, highlighting specific privacy concerns and demographic variations.
Findings
Users prioritize financial information as personal data.
High trust in mobile service providers for data protection.
Women are slightly more privacy-conscious than men.
Abstract
Several ICT studies give anecdotal evidences showing privacy to be an area of concern that can influence adoption of technology in the developing world. However, in-depth understanding of end users' privacy attitudes and awareness is largely unexplored in developing countries such as India. We conducted a survey with 10,427 Indian citizens to bring forth various insights on privacy expectations and perceptions of end users. Our study explores end-users' privacy expectations on three ICT platforms - mobile phones, OSN (Online Social Network), and government projects. Our results, though preliminary, show that users disproportionately consider financial details as personal information in comparison to medical records. Users heavily use mobile phones to store personal details and show high trust in mobile service providers for protecting the private data. However, users show concerns that…
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Taxonomy
TopicsICT in Developing Communities · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Smart Cities and Technologies
