Understanding Cyberprivacy : Context, Concept, and Issues

Abstract

Cyberprivacy has become one of the most worrisome issues in the age of digitalization, as data breaches have increased at an alarming rate, and the development of technology has changed privacy norms themselves. Thus, maintaining cyberprivacy is important for both academia and practitioners. However, the literature on cyberprivacy is fragmented, since the topic is multidisciplinary and often confused with cybersecurity and data privacy. In this study, we seek to understand cyberprivacy by conducting a comprehensive literature review and analyzing 79 selected articles on the topic between 2008 and 2021. Our analysis shows that there are eight contexts associated with cyberprivacy. We proposed concepts on cyberprivacy from different views and highlighted four issues related to cyberprivacy for future consideration. Taken together, the knowledge on cyberprivacy, its challenges and its practices does not seem to accumulate. Consequently, there is a need for more targeted research on the topic to cover different contexts.