Journal
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE
Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages 340-347Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612455931
Keywords
privacy; control; paradox; behavioral economics of privacy; Web 2.0 applications
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- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Division Of Computer and Network Systems [1012763] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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.
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