Privacy practices of Internet users: Self-reports versus observed behavior

Is the Privacy Paradox a Matter of Psychological Distance? An Exploratory Study of the Privacy Paradox from a Construal Level Theory Perspective

“…Research on behavioral economics has extensively highlighted the impact of heuristics and cognitive biases on individual decision-making. Some Information System (IS) scholars have also examined aspects such as optimistic bias [24], over-confidence bias [25], affect heuristic [26], and hyperbolic discounting [27] on privacy behavior. Similarly, a limited number of studies have investigated how lack of knowledge and information asymmetries [28] can explain the privacy paradox.…”

Juxtaposing the persuasion knowledge model and privacy paradox: An experimental look at advertising personalization, public policy and public understanding

“…Inducements such as online impression management, product giveaways, lower prices, convenience and better selection, combined with consumers' reported feelings of powerlessness to protect their personal data have been advanced as explanations for this phenomenon (John, 2015). Others contend that users' openness to sharing personal data reflects inaccurate perceptions of vulnerability (Jensen, Potts & Jensen, 2005), or a lack of understanding about the real value of their personal information (Lerman, 2014). Indeed, one survey suggests that although people are aware that companies are using their personal data and have concerns about this practice, their understanding of exactly how the data are being used is severely lacking (Pew, 2014).…”

Sensitivity of personal data items in different online contexts

“…However, there are more passive modes of collection (such as browsing data) and account linkages that can share personal information without the individual realising (see e.g., [14]). One challenge of our research was to test user awareness of more passive data collection without priming them [9,12].…”

“…Users are focused on action and interaction; the internet for them is a domain through which they are productive, social and entertained [8,18]. At the same time, they have privacy concerns when they need to provide personal information [9]: They want to know what happens to their data [3]. In contrast, regulators and service providers are less focused on the "what" but on the "how": the modus operandi.…”