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What is General Data Privacy and Regulation (GDPR)

Chapter 9
Privacy Concerns Surrounding Personal Information Sharing on Health and Fitness Mobile Apps
Legislation enacted by the European Union in 2018 regulating companies in order to protect the handling of personal information of European Union (E.U.) citizens.
Published in Chapter:
An Analysis of Privacy Language in the Scholarly Literature on Mental Health Apps
Maureen Ebben (University of Southern Maine, USA) and Julien S. Murphy (University of Southern Maine, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3487-8.ch009
Abstract
This chapter charts the language of privacy in published scholarship on mental health apps. What definition of privacy is assumed? What meanings of privacy are deployed in the research about mental health apps? Using a qualitative thematic approach, this analysis shows that privacy language can be understood as occurring in three phases: Phase 1: Discourse of Technological Possibility; Phase 2: Discourse of Privacy Challenges and Threats; and Phase 3: Discourse of Advocacy. The authors discuss each of these phases and propose a more critical discourse of privacy by identifying the issues inherent in understanding privacy as security.
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