PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Acquisti, Alessandro
AU  - Brandimarte, Laura
AU  - Loewenstein, George
TI  - Privacy and human behavior in the age of information
AID  - 10.1126/science.aaa1465
DP  - 2015 Jan 30
TA  - Science
PG  - 509--514
VI  - 347
IP  - 6221
4099  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6221/509.short
4100  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6221/509.full
SO  - Science2015 Jan 30; 347
AB  - This Review summarizes and draws connections between diverse streams of empirical research on privacy behavior. We use three themes to connect insights from social and behavioral sciences: people’s uncertainty about the consequences of privacy-related behaviors and their own preferences over those consequences; the context-dependence of people’s concern, or lack thereof, about privacy; and the degree to which privacy concerns are malleable—manipulable by commercial and governmental interests. Organizing our discussion by these themes, we offer observations concerning the role of public policy in the protection of privacy in the information age.