Arbeitspapier

Preferences for Data Privacy: Sharing Personal Information with Close and Distant Peers

We provide evidence that people have preferences for data privacy and show that these preferences partly reflect people’s interest in controlling who receives their private information. Participants of an experiment face the decision to share validated personal information with peers. We compare preferences for sharing potentially embarrassing information (body weight and height) and non-embarrassing information (address data) with geographically proximate or distant peers. We find that i) participants are willing to give up substantial monetary amounts in order to keep both types of information private, ii) data types are valued differently, and iii) prices for potentially embarrassing information tend to be higher for geographically proximate than distant peers.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Munich Discussion Paper ; No. 2014-4

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Thema
preferences
data privacy
information transmission
experiment

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schudy, Simeon
Utikal, Verena
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät
(wo)
München
(wann)
2014

DOI
doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.20791
Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-20791-6
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Schudy, Simeon
  • Utikal, Verena
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät

Entstanden

  • 2014

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