Two seemingly contradictory trends have accompanied the rise of digital transformation: a demand for better and more customized services, which require the use of personal data, and a concern for data protection. How do we reconcile these divergent trends? The answer to this question may...

Considering that privacy concerns could affect users' privacy behavior as an antecedent, it is important to investigate the impact of strengthened personal data protection regulation on users' privacy concerns. However, there exists mixed views that the personal data protection regulation has a...

Using China's Cybersecurity Law (CSL) as an exogenous shock, I examine how personal data security affects stock crash risk. I find that the stock crash risk of treatment firms (which collect personal data) significantly decreases after the CSL, and such decrease is larger when firms face greater...

Two seemingly contradictory trends have accompanied the rise of digital transformation: a demand for better and more customized services, which require the use of personal data, and a concern for data protection. How do we reconcile these divergent trends? The answer to this question may...

Die öffentliche Meinung findet Transparenz sympathisch, denn sie fördert eine offene und demokratische Gesellschaft. Privatpersonen tendieren hingegen zum Gegenteil und berufen sich dafür auf Grundrechte. Es bedarf deshalb einer Abwägung zwischen der Transparenz für Demokratie und faire...

An online world exists in which businesses have become burdened with managerial and legal duties regarding the seeking of informed consent and the protection of privacy and personal data, while growing public cynicism regarding personal data collection threatens the healthy development of...

When a user shares multi-dimensional data about themselves with a firm, the firm learns about the correlations of different dimensions of user data. We incorporate this type of learning into a model of a data market in which a firm acquires data from users with privacy concerns. User data is...

The climate of technological innovation has presented the world with many solutions, but at the same time, many issues follow. This paper discusses several elements of the backbone network and data centers to encourage researchers to work on this subject and dig deeper into the economic impact,...

Take-it-or-leave-it, in which users have to provide personal information as required by service providers, has been a dominant form of agreement between online service providers and users. The regulators recently began to prohibit dominant online platforms from collecting personal data based on...

Changes that are constantly taking place in the digital economy cause increasing instability of legislation in the field of data protection and security. For example, in Ukraine, under martial law, there is an urgent need to adapt the legal regulation to European data protection standards (in...

Plant eine Organisation ein neues IT-System, mit dem es personenbezogene Daten ihrer Kunden oder Mitarbeiter verarbeiten möchte, so stellt es den Planer des IT-Systems häufig vor große Herausforderungen, die Entwicklung und Inbetriebnahme des neuen IT-Systems unter Beachtung der...

Die Problemstellung, die diesem neuen Arbeitspapier zugrunde liegt, ist die Kritik an der bisherigen Etablierung des Datenschutzes in der ESG-Dimension und die Berücksichtigung dessen in dem ESG-Score, welcher eine grundlegende Orientierung für Investitionsentscheidungen von ESG-Anlegern...

Finanztransaktionen werden zunehmend online abgewickelt, generell scheinen FinTechs das traditionelle Bankgeschäft zu verdrängen. Damit stellt sich vermehrt die Frage, inwiefern der Schutz personenbezogener Daten bei Online-Finanzdienstleistungen in der Wahrnehmung des Kunden als...

Internet services are often free of charge but ask for customers' personal data in exchange for usage. We experimentally study whether the provision of information-based public goods is susceptible to restraint when contributions not only make contributors better off but also enable a...

Third-party tracking, the collection and sharing of behavioural data about individuals, is a significant and ubiquitous privacy threat in mobile apps. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced in 2018 to protect personal data better, but there exists, thus far, limited...

Third-party tracking, the collection and sharing of behavioural data about individuals, is a significant and ubiquitous privacy threat in mobile apps. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced in 2018 to protect personal data better, but there exists, thus far, limited...

Aim/purpose - The paper contains descriptive exploratory research on the implementation of General Data Protection Requirements (GDPR) in a group of Polish public administration offices. The purpose of this research is to investigate the current state of personal data protection in the entities...

Companies near constantly surveil their customers to collect, analyze, and profit from their private information. A prevailing concern is that the market for private data and security breaches expose consumers to financial fraud. In this study, we exploit Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT)...