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Data privacy: Users' thoughts on Quantified Self personal data

Data privacy: Users' thoughts on Quantified Self personal data
Data privacy: Users' thoughts on Quantified Self personal data
The logging of personal data has been shown to offer many benefits for those wanting to, for example, get fitter, get stronger or get to know themselves better. In this chapter, we concentrate on the privacy values attributed to Quantified-Self (QS) data. Using evidence taken from research interviews, this chapter reviews privacy in relation to personal data and offers an empirical perspective on how QS users view and value the data they collect, and often display publically, as well as their attitudes towards the handling of their data by QS device manufacturers. We question appreciations of privacy in QS data and elaborate on how users value their QS privacy.
Personal data, Privacy, Quantified Self, Self-tracking
111-124
Palgrave Macmillan Cham
Spiller, Keith
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Ball, Kirstie
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Bandara, Arosha
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Meadows, Maureen
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McCormick, Ciaran
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Nuseibeh, Bashar
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Price, Blaine A.
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et al.
Spiller, Keith
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Ball, Kirstie
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Bandara, Arosha
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Meadows, Maureen
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McCormick, Ciaran
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Nuseibeh, Bashar
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Price, Blaine A.
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Spiller, Keith, Ball, Kirstie and Bandara, Arosha , et al. (2017) Data privacy: Users' thoughts on Quantified Self personal data. In, Self-Tracking: Empirical and Philosophical Investigations. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, pp. 111-124. (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65379-2_8).

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Abstract

The logging of personal data has been shown to offer many benefits for those wanting to, for example, get fitter, get stronger or get to know themselves better. In this chapter, we concentrate on the privacy values attributed to Quantified-Self (QS) data. Using evidence taken from research interviews, this chapter reviews privacy in relation to personal data and offers an empirical perspective on how QS users view and value the data they collect, and often display publically, as well as their attitudes towards the handling of their data by QS device manufacturers. We question appreciations of privacy in QS data and elaborate on how users value their QS privacy.

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Published date: 4 October 2017
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2018. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Personal data, Privacy, Quantified Self, Self-tracking

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Local EPrints ID: 475631
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/475631
PURE UUID: 8a01ed46-6540-46c4-833c-4a6d860cb3ec
ORCID for Keith Spiller: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5796-8165

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Date deposited: 22 Mar 2023 17:48
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 02:15

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Author: Keith Spiller ORCID iD
Author: Kirstie Ball
Author: Arosha Bandara
Author: Maureen Meadows
Author: Ciaran McCormick
Author: Bashar Nuseibeh
Author: Blaine A. Price
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