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e-Democracy 2017: E-Democracy – Privacy-Preserving, Secure, Intelligent E-Government Services pp 79–94Cite as

“I Have Learned that I Must Think Twice Before…”. An Educational Intervention for Enhancing Students’ Privacy Awareness in Facebook

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Social Network Sites have doubtless become part of our lives, facilitating communication and interaction between social actors. Within this frame users disclose personal information for several reasons while at the same time they express privacy concerns. “Privacy Paradox” reveals that despite privacy concerns, users, most of the times, fail to protect their privacy within SNSs, putting thus themselves and other users to risk. In this respect, several researches have shown that users’ privacy awareness increase is of major importance, focusing on the crucial role of education towards this. This research aims to explore the effects of a long-term University-based educational intervention for enhancing students’ digital knowledge and skills in order to protect their privacy in SNSs efficiently. The educational intervention centered on a semester course of a Greek University, provides encouraging findings regarding students’ privacy awareness enhancement.

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  1. Privacy Engineering and Social Informatics Laboratory, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, 81100, Lesvos, Greece

    Maria Sideri, Angeliki Kitsiou & Christos Kalloniatis

  2. Information and Communication Systems Security Laboratory, Department of Information and Communications Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, 83200, Samos, Greece

    Eleni Tzortzaki & Stefanos Gritzalis

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Sideri, M., Kitsiou, A., Tzortzaki, E., Kalloniatis, C., Gritzalis, S. (2017). “I Have Learned that I Must Think Twice Before…”. An Educational Intervention for Enhancing Students’ Privacy Awareness in Facebook. In: Katsikas, S., Zorkadis, V. (eds) E-Democracy – Privacy-Preserving, Secure, Intelligent E-Government Services. e-Democracy 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 792. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71117-1_6

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