While Internet users claim to be concerned about online privacy, their behavior rarely reflects those concerns. In this … paper we investigate whether the availability of comparison information about the privacy practices of online merchants … affects users’ behavior. We conducted our study using Privacy Finder, a “privacy-enhanced search engine” that displays search …

The concept of privacy has proven difficult to analyze because of its subjective nature and susceptibility to … psychological and contextual influences. This study challenges the concept of privacy as a valid construct for addressing … offer a more reliable and temporally stable measure of privacy-oriented behavior than do snapshots of environmentally …

still possible for an adversary to reconstruct the original data using additional information thus resulting in privacy …, based on statistical decision theory, that assesses the relationship between the disclosed data and the resulting privacy … database. We assess the privacy risk by taking into account both the entity identification and the sensitivity of the disclosed …

the same time,adware also raises privacy concerns. We study the effect of programmers'choice between shareware and adware … the one hand and their loss of privacy on theother hand. We also examine the implications of improvements in thetechnology …

online rosters provide more privacy than they do. This paper presents RosterFinder, a set of simple algorithms for locating … known names. Privacy implications are discussed using the example of FERPA and online student rosters. …

People value their privacy; however, they typically do not make the protection of their privacy a priority. Privacy is … oftentimes not tangible, complicating the efforts of technology users to express and act according to their privacy needs … transactions, or create profiles on online social networks. Companies post privacy policies inform people about their informational …