TY - JOUR
T1 - Misplaced Confidences
T2 - Privacy and the Control Paradox
AU - Brandimarte, Laura
AU - Acquisti, Alessandro
AU - Loewenstein, George
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: IWT SBO Project on Security and Privacy for Online Social Networks (SPION), U.S. Army Research Office under Contract DAAD190210389 through Carnegie Mellon CyLab, and TRUST (Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology), which receives support from the National Science Foundation (NSF award number CCF-0424422) and the following organizations: AFOSR (#FA9550-06-1-0244), BT, Cisco, DoCoMo USA Labs, EADS, ESCHER, HP, IBM, iCAST, Intel, Microsoft, ORNL, Pirelli, Qualcomm, Sun, Symantec, TCS, Telecom Italia, and United Technologies. Acquisti also gratefully acknowledges support from Google’s Focused Research Award and from National Science Foundation (Award CNS-1012763).
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - We test the hypothesis that increasing individuals' perceived control over the release and access of private information-even information that allows them to be personally identified--will increase their willingness to disclose sensitive information. If their willingness to divulge increases sufficiently, such an increase in control can, paradoxically, end up leaving them more vulnerable. Our findings highlight how, if people respond in a sufficiently offsetting fashion, technologies designed to protect them can end up exacerbating the risks they face.
AB - We test the hypothesis that increasing individuals' perceived control over the release and access of private information-even information that allows them to be personally identified--will increase their willingness to disclose sensitive information. If their willingness to divulge increases sufficiently, such an increase in control can, paradoxically, end up leaving them more vulnerable. Our findings highlight how, if people respond in a sufficiently offsetting fashion, technologies designed to protect them can end up exacerbating the risks they face.
KW - Web 2.0 applications
KW - behavioral economics of privacy
KW - control
KW - paradox
KW - privacy
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U2 - 10.1177/1948550612455931
DO - 10.1177/1948550612455931
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84876188506
SN - 1948-5506
VL - 4
SP - 340
EP - 347
JO - Social Psychological and Personality Science
JF - Social Psychological and Personality Science
IS - 3
ER -