Disclosure of Personal Information under Risk of Privacy Shocks - 2nd ed

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Breaches of the security of personal data collected by firms are reported almost daily. Companies are under an increasing political pressure to notify individuals whose privacy as been breached. At the moment, we know virtually nothing about the behavioral impact of data breach notifications. We present the results of an experimental study designed to investigate how breach notifications change the individual's propensity to provide sensitive personal information to firms. In contrast to the theory (where breach notifications have no behavioral effect), our main result shows that notifications induce a sub-group of individuals to disclose less information to a firm, i.e. those with personally sensitive information.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE ; No. 1055

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection ; Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Feri, Francesco ; Giannetti, Caterina ; Jentzsch, Nicola
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)
• (where): Bologna
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4854
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/159893
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET