RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Privacy and human behavior in the age of information
JF Science
JO Science
FD American Association for the Advancement of Science
SP 509
OP 514
DO 10.1126/science.aaa1465
VO 347
IS 6221
A1 Acquisti, Alessandro
A1 Brandimarte, Laura
A1 Loewenstein, George
YR 2015
UL http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6221/509.abstract
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.