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The Social Dilemma of Big Data: Donating Personal Data to Promote Social Welfare
When using digital devices and services, individuals provide their personal data to organizations in exchange for gains in various domains of life. Organizations use these data to run technologies such as smart assistants, augmented reality, and robotics. Most often, these organizations seek to make a profit. Individuals can, however, also provide personal data to public databases that enable nonprofit organizations to promote social welfare if sufficient data are contributed. Regulators have therefore called for efficient ways to help the public collectively benefit from its own data. By implementing an online experiment among 1,696 US citizens, we find that individuals would donate their data even when at risk of getting leaked. The willingness to provide personal data depends on the risk level of a data leak but not on a realistic impact of the data on social welfare. Individuals are less willing to donate their data to the private industry than to academia or the government. Finally, individuals are not sensitive to whether the data are processed by a human-supervised or a self-learning smart assistant.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8926
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Cooperative Games
Public Goods
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Social Innovation
Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
- Subject
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data philanthropy
sustainable development
decision-making
privacy
environmental protection
public health
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hillebrand, Kirsten
Hornuf, Lars
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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04.03.2025, 1:35 PM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hillebrand, Kirsten
- Hornuf, Lars
- Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2021
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