We sincerely hope these contributions encourage further engagement with comparative privacy research and meaningful conversations about privacy in our increasingly interconnected world.

Our deepest gratitude to all the authors for their rigorous work, important insights, and patience & effort.

11. In "A Triple-Layered Comparative Approach" ‪@liming1026.bsky.social‬ & Yiming Chen analyze how WeChat, Taobao, and Douyin, implement privacy policies after China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). doi.org/10.1177/2056...

10. In "(Lack of) Patterns in Commitment" @tarnov.bsky.social analyzes and maps the data protection laws across 25 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, discovering large variability that does not follow clear geographic patterns. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

9. In "'(Virtuous) Wives Don't Have Anything to Hide'" Debjani Chakraborty & Chhavi Garg examine how married women in rural India navigate digital privacy, balancing cultural norms of being "hidden" online while having "nothing to hide" from family. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

8. In "AI Privacy in Context" Renwen Zhang, Han Li, Anfan Chen, Zihan Liu, and Yi-Chieh Lee compare public and institutional discourses on AI privacy on Twitter (US) and Weibo (China), revealing divergent patterns shaped by cultural, political, and economic factors. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

7. In "Turn It on! Turn It on?" Leyla Dogruel et al. study how students and teachers in Germany and Israel negotiated privacy and visibility during the shift to emergency remote teaching in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

6. In "Conversation-Related Advertising and Electronic Eavesdropping" @segijn.bsky.social et al. examine the belief that mobile devices eavesdrop on offline conversations across three countries with different regulatory contexts and surveillance histories. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

5. In "Understanding the Motivations of Young Adults" Delia Cristina Balaban, Maria Mustăţea, and Valeriu Frunzaru explore motivations behind young adults' privacy protection behaviors when configuring smartphone apps in Germany and Romania. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

4. In "Online Privacy, Young People, & Datafication" Rys Farthing and colleagues explore how young people’s awareness of datafication shape their understandings of online privacy in 4 countries from global south and north. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

3. In "It's Fine If Others Do It Too" @cphoffmann.bsky.social and ‪‪@shelleyboulianne.bsky.social‬ nvestigate the relationship between privacy concerns, social influence, and online political expression on Facebook across five Western democracies. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

2. In "Attitudes on Data Use for Public Benefit" Frederic Gerdon compares attitudes on the use of data for public benefit across Germany, Spain, and the UK in a longitudinal survey experiment. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

1. In the editorial we introduce the special issue and the Comparative Privacy Research Framework (CPRF) as a conceptual foundation for context-sensitive #privacy research.

Editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

CPRF: doi.org/10.1080/0197...

The issue hosts 10 contributions and an editorial. Articles explore varied #privacy perceptions, behaviors, & regulations. They draw on theories like contextual integrity & privacy calculus, offering insights into complex relationships between privacy concerns & socio-political/tech forces.

We find techies to be liberal on cultural issues, such as same-sex marriage and cosmopolitanism, conservative on income redistribution, and inconsistent on attitudes towards economic regulation. They also show surprisingly high institutional trust. Developers emerge as a politically distinct group.

We use large-scale cross-national survey data (ESS & ISSP) to explore the differences both within the tech workforce and between it and other occupational elites. We also test the generalizability of previous US-based results about tech professionals in a more geographically diverse sample.