New, exploratory work on privacy and security trade - off being presented at the 12th annual conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business, Thessaloniki - Greece. The joint work by Messaritaki B., Stergiou D., Apostolakis A. and Jaffry S., focused upon travellers' preferences for current and future policy making in the field of travel security.
This research provides preliminary evidence on people’s preferences about privacy issues in connection to surveillance procedures and arrangements in international airports. It gives information about the type of technology used and what people prefer to be used in the future. It also gives information about privacy issues and how they are connected to surveillance procedures and arrangements. Overall, the empirical findings illustrated that there are certain aspects of policy making they would prefer to keep unchanged (i.e., the type of personnel charged with security at international airports), while there are other aspects of policy making they would like to change (i.e., technological attributes). All in all, the empirical findings confirmed that there are considerably high levels of heterogeneity among respondents.
Airport stakeholders should take into account these preferences when making decisions about the introduction of new technology products and security control procedures.
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