Title :
Nudging Privacy: The Behavioral Economics of Personal Information
Author :
Acquisti, Alessandro
Author_Institution :
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
Privacy decisions often involve balancing competing interests. As such, they´re a natural field of study for economics. But traditional economic models have made overly restrictive assumptions about the stability and nature of individual privacy preferences. Approaches drawing on existing research in behavioral economics and psychology can offer complementary tools for understanding privacy decision making.
Keywords :
data privacy; economics; behavioral economics; economic model; personal information; privacy decision making; privacy decisions; privacy preferences; Decision making; Privacy; Psychology; Stability; asymmetric paternalism; behavioral economics; privacy;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSP.2009.163
