Sanctity of Digital Privacy and Personal Data during COVID-19: Are Youths Enough Digitally Literate to Deal with It?

Autor/inn/en	Ghosh, Swagata; Chauhan, Gajendra Singh; Kotwal, Renu
Titel	Sanctity of Digital Privacy and Personal Data during COVID-19: Are Youths Enough Digitally Literate to Deal with It?
Quelle	In: Digital Education Review, (2023) 43, S.131-150 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ghosh, Swagata) ORCID (Chauhan, Gajendra Singh) ORCID (Kotwal, Renu)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Youth; Digital Literacy; Privacy; Data; Confidentiality; Computer Security; Information Security; COVID-19; Pandemics; Internet; Computer Use; Experience; Media Literacy; Time on Task; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Privatsphäre; Daten; Computervirus; Computersicherheit; Erfahrung; Media skills; Medie competence; Medienkompetenz; Zeitaufwand; Indien
Abstract	The COVID-19 pandemic has fast-tracked the development of digital applications and inspired everyone to adapt to the technologies to curb the spread of outbreak. As this crisis intensifies, the rapid usage of digital devices and apps has echoed the serious concerns about civil liberties, privacy, and data protection. Considering the situation, this research aimed to explore the internet using habits of the youths of West Bengal, a state in eastern India, during COVID-19. Besides, the paper explored their experiences of using various digital applications, the fundamental digital literacy and how safely they protect data from breaches. Thus, the paper presents the results by conducting an online survey among the youths in West Bengal. The result, from 215 participants, highlighted that the increased use of these digital applications has not matched the demand for digital privacy literacy among the young generation of the state. While this pandemic has raised their concerns over digital privacy and data protection, yet they do not undertake any strong protection mechanisms to safeguard them digitally. Besides, this paper suggests suitable plans to raise awareness among this generation and form a healthy digital citizenship with a proper regulatory framework as it is the need of the hour. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Universitat de Barcelona. Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron 171, Edifici Llevant P3, Barcelona, 08035 Spain. e-mail: der@greav.net; Web site: http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/der
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01