THE ANALYSIS OF MOBILE USERS' AWARENESS REGARDING THE GDPR MEASURES DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
THE ANALYSIS OF MOBILE USERS' AWARENESS REGARDING THE GDPR MEASURES DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Author(s): Adrian Munteanu, Vasile-Daniel W. Păvăloaia, Doina Fotache
Subject(s): Economy, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: GDPR awareness; mobile users' behaviour; GDPR threats in pre-Covid-19 and Covid-19 period; protection motivation theory;
Summary/Abstract: The current article is part of a larger study that investigates the behavior and awareness of GDPR rules by users of mobile devices. For this purpose, in the study, the components of the Protection-Motivation Theory (PMT) on the profile of mobile device users in Romania were analyzed comparatively (during the pre-Covid-19 period versus the Covid-19 pandemic). The study aimed at analyzing whether the perception of respondents is different depending on certain variables (such as gender, age, level of education and IT profile) in time and to investigate the perception that regular users of mobile devices have regarding information security threats. The responses were collected through an online questionnaire (N=1010), over a period of five years, respectively 2017-2019 (pre-Covid-19) and 2020-2021 (Covid-19) period. The results reveal differences between the behavior and awareness of mobile device users, depending on several variables according to the PMT model.

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