Abstract—End user privacy is a critical concern for all organizations that collect, process and store user data as a part of their business. Privacy concerned users, regulatory bodies and privacy experts continuously demand organizations provide users with privacy protection. Current research lacks an understanding of organizational characteristics that affect an organization’s motivation towar...

Many commerce websites post privacy policies to address Internet shoppers’ privacy concerns. However, few users read or understand them. Iconic privacy indicators may make privacy policies more accessible and easier for users to understand: in this paper, we examine whether the timing and placement of online privacy indicators impact Internet users’ browsing and purchasing decisions. We conduct...

We introduce a generalization of differential privacy called tailored differential privacy, where an individual’s privacy parameter is “tailored” for the individual based on the individual’s data and the data set. In this paper, we focus on a natural instance of tailored differential privacy, which we call outlier privacy : an individual’s privacy parameter is determined by how much of an “outl...

This study examines the impact of privacy defaults and expert recommendations on smartphone users' willingness to pay for “privacy-enhanced” features on paid applications using a 2 (privacy premium default/no privacy premium default) x 2 (privacy expert recommendation/non-privacy expert recommendation) experimental design. Participants (N 1⁄4 309) configured four paid apps with respect to priva...