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Activity Number: 73 - Data Driven Digital and Social Media Marketing
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, July 29, 2018 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Marketing
Abstract #328971
Title: Paying for Privacy While Selling Your Data: a Discrete Choice Experiment
Author(s): Zhouyu Wu*
Companies: Cornell University
Keywords: behavioral economics; experimental economics; discrete choice; privacy; data
Abstract:

This project explores how an individual's valuation of personal data may vary depending on whether it is framed as a transfer of information or a purchase of privacy. This study posits that individuals view privacy goods as distinct from data goods---even when outcomes are identical---and the individual's willingness to pay for privacy is higher than their willingness to accept for revealing personal information. The experimental design of this study involves a discrete choice model in a hypothetical data marketplace, where individuals' preferences over various privacy and personal data choice sets are elicited.


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