Volume 73, Issue 9 p. 1297-1313
RESEARCH ARTICLE

GKC-CI: A unifying framework for contextual norms and information governance

Yan Shvartzshnaider

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Yan Shvartzshnaider

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Yan Shvartzshnaider, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada.

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Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo

Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo

School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

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Noah Apthorpe

Noah Apthorpe

Department of Computer Science, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA

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First published: 24 March 2022

Funding information: National Security Agency, Grant/Award Number: H98230-18-D-006

Abstract

Privacy-enhancing technologies that incorporate a socially meaningful conception of privacy, one that meets people's expectations and is ethically defensible, need to factor in contextual privacy norms and information governance as part of their design. This involves understanding what information handling practices users deem acceptable, what factors influence users' perceptions and behaviors, and how informational norms evolve. In this paper, we present GKC-CI, a unifying framework for examining contextual privacy norms and information governance in a given context to help structure research inquiries around these questions.