Table 1.

Profiles the definitions of information privacy concern

S.N.Source/AuthorDefinition
1Warren and Brandeis (1890) Right to be alone in the right to privacy described as the right of a person to be alone by isolation from the attention of others
2Fried (1968) An individual right to keep the personal information and matters secret and control over the information and also privacy may be explored as a state free from unwanted intrusions and disturbances; the ability of an individual to select to be publicized in a certain way
3Westin and Louis (1970)Information privacy is the ability of a person who has control over the data and to what extent the data would communicate to others
4Posner (1983) Information privacy as an option to secrecy by that everyone has the right to restrict the information about themselves in public and where outsiders should not be encouraged to take advantage of it
5Kufer (1987) Privacy can be observed with autonomy, a segment closely associated with personhood
6Smith et al. (1996) Information privacy is the relationship between technology and the individual’s ownership of collection and sharing of data
7Jentzsch (2001) Financial privacy is related to a person’s financial transactions are recorded with proper process, and it ensures that all information to be covered by avoiding fraud
8Dinev and Hart (2004) In internet privacy, the information of each concern would be kept preserved with more security by the utilization of new technology
9Skinner et al. (2006) Information privacy contexts examine the four dimensions of privacy: Personal behavior privacy, personal privacy, communication privacy and data privacy
10Dinev and Hart (2006) Information privacy concern explains the level of privacy with various dependent variables such as eagerness, willingness to provide the personal information over the internet. In general, individual perception of users, who are using the internet, be afraid in mind that what happens with the data they provided over the internet
11Smith et al. (2011) Information privacy is the relationship between technology and the individual’s ownership of collection and sharing of data

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