GLST650 Liberty Relationship Between Culture & Information Privacy Policy Essay Hello, please rewrite the essay without plagiarism please. If you have any

GLST650 Liberty Relationship Between Culture & Information Privacy Policy Essay Hello, please rewrite the essay without plagiarism please. If you have any questions please feel free to notify me LIBERTY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DIVINITY
Article Reflection Paper 3
Submitted to Dr. Jones Kaleli
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of
GLST 650 – D06 LUO
Intercultural Communication and Engagement
by
Joy Senecal
November 15, 2018
Introduction / Summary
Information privacy is an important topic, not only in the United States, but all over the
world. One of the reasons there is such an emphasis on it today is because the sale of personal
data such as contact information, demographics and other information related to users of the
Internet, as well as clients of businesses, has become a lucrative market. The article, “The
relationship between culture and information privacy policy,”1 focuses on the relationship
between culture and information privacy legislation.
The above-stated article focuses on three levels of culture and privacy law. It looks at
cultural attitudes based on the EU directive and compares it to individual attitudes about privacy,
corporate attitudes and regulation, and national legislation. It also looks at older models of
privacy variables such as the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. It then uses the GLOBE variables
of culture to base its research model on and discuss its findings. The article concludes that group
collectivism, power distances, assertiveness, and uncertainty avoidance are the most influential
in predicting how privacy legislation will be enacted and to what level, but also finds that a big
predictor of legislation is not cultural values or norms at all, but rather the global market and race
for dominance in the information industry.
Reflection
The first thing that struck me when reading the article is that they had to exclude the
United States in their data because it was so different from the data in other countries. This, of
course, is due to the unique nature of the United States in its number of states and the state-level
1 Sophie Cockcroft and Saphira Rekker, “The Relationship between Culture and
Information Privacy Policy” Electronic Markets 26, no. 1 (02, 2016): 55-72,
http://ezproxy.liberty.edu/login?url=https://search-proquestcom.ezproxy.liberty.edu/docview/1758096169?accountid=12085, p. 65.
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legislation for each. The size of the United States makes data from it hard to compare to other
countries because in Europe, countries and cultures are also limited by geography. The United
States includes so many geographical areas that its culture changes from state to state or even
within cities of a state. I find that true in Virginia where I live, especially having lived in three
different cities. This can make cultural studies hard because it shares one government.
The fact that Cockcroft and Rekker decided to exclude the United States made the comparisons I
made in my head much harder to do, and therefore, I believe, left me necessarily unbiased in my
analysis of the data the article presented.
Cockcroft and Rekker state in their results that, “Based on the limited evidence available,
it would seem that nation’s laws do reflect their cultures driven by several cultural attributes.”2
This is not surprising. Individual and group attitudes about anything would likely affect the
legislation in most countries, as the individual law-makers were still raised in the culture of the
country. However, some of the results were interesting. They asserted in their hypothesis that a
high GC would cause the country to have a lower emphasis on privacy law and vice-versa. They
found the opposite to be true. Countries with High GC seemed to have less stress on individual
privacy. I am not sure I would agree with their hypotheses. This could be because in America,
we emphasize individualism, and we also emphasize privacy, but we also are wary of how much
regulation is on our privacy, so I found the norm to be an emphasis on laws protecting privacy
and wasn’t surprised that countries with high GC had people who were more open and therefore
less worried about what individual data is known about them.
I also found the study on Gender Egalitarianism interesting. The authors stated:
2 Cockcroft and Rekker, “The Relationship between Culture and Information Privacy
Policy”, p. 65.
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These countries also have a high score for gender egalitarianism. The finding supports
Bansal et al. (2010) who found that femininity impacted privacy concern. Regulatory
approach was negatively associated with Masculinity in the Milberg et al. (2000) study,
meaning that higher the masculinity index in society the less government involvement in
privacy regulation.3
This was interesting as I had never thought about the fact that gender equality, or lack thereof,
could or would influence how a culture views privacy. When I did start considering it, I
assumed the findings would be that the less gender equality, the more important privacy would
be because I thought of countries in the middle east in which women tend to be subordinate to
men.
3 Cockcroft and Rekker, “The Relationship between Culture and Information Privacy
Policy”, p.67.
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