From the results, conclusions for implementing user-friendly data portability solutions and public information campaigns are drawn, and directions for further user-centered research on online service switching and data portability are discussed. Users reported the greatest need for data portability for data-storage (i.e., cloud) services. Higher importance of privacy and higher technology competency are linked to an increased desire to use data portability. The results reveal that switching intentions are more prevalent among users who attach great importance to privacy, users who are open towards new technologies, as well as younger users and users with a university degree. An online quantitative questionnaire study with a large, sociodemographically diverse German sample (N = 995) was conducted, and data were analyzed via logistic regression modelling. Drawing upon related research, switching intentions and attitudes towards data portability are assumed to be affected by users’ technology acceptance, technology competency and subjective importance of privacy. The present study therefore examines predictors of users’ intentions to switch online services and their attitudes towards data portability (i.e., intention to use portability). Identifying such factors could support the design of user-friendly data portability solutions and awareness-raising measures,thereby strengthening users’ digital sovereignty. However, little is known about psychological factors that influence whether users desire switching between services and using data portability.
In particular, the Right to Data Portability is intended to facilitate switching between online services by allowing users to port data between service providers. įull text available: - The European General Data Protection Regulation aims at empowering users of online services.
Under the term "digital sovereignty" answers to these threats and ways to increase privacy, security, and informational selfdetermination of individuals, economic actors, and democratic institutions are discussed. Finally, phenomena like fake news and echo chambers, that is, online communication structures in which one-sided information circulates, can not only erode users' trust in online information and services, but can also contribute to societal polarization and can pose threats to elections and democratic societies as a whole. Companies also increasingly suffer damages and competitive disadvantages from espionage and intellectual property theft facilitated via online channels. Nevertheless, incidents like the spread of online fake news and hackers illegitimately acquiring large amounts of personal user data such as credit card data or passwords have drawn increased attention to the dangers and challenges of digitalization and the over-dependence on few marketdominating service providers: Individual users of online services (e.g., social networking websites) are confronted with the risks of manipulation, online fraud, and identity theft which can lead to both financial harm and psychological distress. Further, based on our findings, we call for more multi-disciplinary/multi-agency research on IE in order to construct a comprehensive framework to combat IE. Particularly, we systematically: i) identify key features of IE by analysing its current definitions, and coin our own working definition ii) discuss the current state of research on IE from different academic disciplines iii) highlight some key challenges in the current state of research on IE and iv) identify some possible trends in its future development. In this paper, we report a comprehensive Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of current English literature on IE. Thus, an in-depth understanding of IE is necessary. Currently, techniques generated by rapid developments of Internet of Things (IOTs) and Data Science are enabling a massive increase of both frequency and power of IE related activities in our increasingly challenging global commercial environment. Industrial Espionage (IE) is an umbrella term covering a complicated range of activities performed to gain competitive advantages, resulting in a huge amount of financial loss annually.
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