Chesley Bonestell, “The Exploration of Mars” (1953), oil on board, 143/8 x 28 inches, gift of William Estler, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Reproduced courtesy of Bonestell LLC.

Would You Share Personal Data?

January 14, 2016

 

 

1/14/16 – Building a case based on using his smartphone as a fitness coach, this researcher examined in Issues when and how he would be most likely to trust such devices with personal data. In an extension of such exploration, the Pew Research Center recently asked more than a thousand people how they viewed the choice between privacy and data disclosure across a range of now-familiar scenarios, and the phrase that best captured their views was, “It depends.”