Data is a basis of business strategies to inform companies of who their clients are, what they want, and how they can compare and assess products. Customers provide companies with data to get custom services and products. When such services and produc...
Data is a basis of business strategies to inform companies of who their clients are, what they want, and how they can compare and assess products. Customers provide companies with data to get custom services and products. When such services and products satisfy their taste, customers naturally become brand ambassadors. The My Data service marked the beginning of competition over data among corporations to provide sophisticated and personalized customer experiences.
Corporations, however, need to guarantee the transparency and control of data usage beyond reward and value delivery for data so that their customers will be willing to offer their data themselves.
The 2021 KPMG survey results report that 86% of the American population is concerned with the protection of private information. In this nationwide survey, 40% of the respondents believe that corporations do not use their information ethically. As a global trend covering South Korea, as well, these perceptions triggered legal revisions to stipulate a right to data portability to hold corporations accountable for data collection and reinforce individuals' right to personal data self-determination. Good examples include the General Data Protection Regulation of EU, the California Consumer Privacy Act of California, the U.S.A., and the Personal Information Protection Act, the Protection of Credit Information Act, and the Information and Communication Network Act of South Korea.
Consumers' enhanced intention to adopt the My Data service or their voluntary provision of personal information is a very essential element in the stable growth of the My Data industry along with the creation of corporate values. The growing leakage of customer information according to the rising value of data can have negative impacts on the use of My Data service and shrink quality custom service needs based on the personal information provided by financial consumers. It is thus needed to analyze reliability-based security factors to control these negative factors and increase the intention to adopt.
Based on these needs, this study set out to identify security risks that financial consumers could recognize and security factors that could supplement them and investigate the effects of these security factors on consumers' intention to adopt the My Data service, thus providing useful implications for increasing the acceptance of financial consumers and finding a strategy to expand safe utilization.
The findings raise a need to guarantee the stability and transparency of information provided by customers as information subjects, and they should be essential requirements for the My Data service. The security factors applied to guarantee them should include convenience in terms of financial service.
The core of expanding the My Data service is customers' voluntary provision of their personal information, which means that information subjects should be able to recognize the safety of the service. Safety should in turn connote efficiency, which suggests a need to take into account the convenience of My Data service users. In addition, there should be comprehensive measures to earn trust from consumers for damage compensations as well as technologies and policies as preventive measures to minimize risk.
That is, the essential security factors to promote the spread of the My Data service include terminal protection in terms of prevention, the monitoring of abnormal trading and the sharing of financial accident information in terms of detection, and the formation of an accident analysis and response team and the realization of damage compensation and dispute settlement plans in terms of recovery.