ABSTRACT
Privacy is a construct widely investigated in the information systems world, both in the context of e-commerce as well as in the context of ubiquitous computing (UC). What has been missing in information security (IS)
research, except for a few articles, is a thorough framing and defining of what privacy is, including empirical testing of its building blocks based on properly defined scales. As a result of this lack of research, privacy definitions appear in different forms and facets, misconceptions not excluded. Consequently, when researching privacy for a ubiquitous computing context today, there is little common ground to build on.
