From Safety to Creativity: Rethinking Privacy and Security in the Digital Era
This talk highlights key insights from a decade-long research program examining how the strategic use of privacy can foster digital innovation in workplaces. The findings offer clear evidence of the critical role of privacy as a driver of creativity, experimentation, and digital innovation. The talk will then introduce preliminary ideas from current SSHRC-funded projects exploring how perceived sense of safety and digital exhaustion shape users’ digital behaviors in online environments, offering a fresh lens on human-centered cybersecurity and privacy decision-making.
Burcu Bulgurcu
Dr. Burcu Bulgurcu (Ph.D., M.Sc., Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia) is an Associate Professor of Information Technology Management at the Ted Rogers School of Management. She was previously a faculty member at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Her academic research interests include human-centric cybersecurity and information privacy. Her work provides guidance for developing data-protective processes and privacy-preserving technologies, with an emphasis on their role in strengthening cyber resilience and enabling digital innovation. The results of her research have been published in Financial Times Top 50 journals and leading conferences, including MIS Quarterly, MIT Sloan Management Review, the Journal of MIS, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. She teaches courses in IT management and strategy, as well as a course on data visualization that emphasizes storytelling with data.