Price Discrimination, Privacy Technologies, and User Acceptance
نویسندگان
چکیده
We discuss the relations between welfare enhancing price discrimination and privacy enhancing technologies, and the possible drivers of consumers’ and merchants’ acceptance of those technologies.
منابع مشابه
The Unsolvable Privacy Problem and Its Implications for Security Technologies
Privacy presents many puzzles. In particular, why is it eroding, given the high value people assign to their privacy? This extended abstract argues that there are strong incentives for decreasing privacy, rooted in the economic benefits of price discrimination. As a result, the privacy problem is unsolvable. The conflict between incentives to price discriminate and the public dislike of this pr...
متن کاملA Comparative Study of RFID Technology Measuring Efficiency and Acceptance when Capturing Attendance
The use of Barcodes and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has become a ubiquitous means of inventory and asset tracking. When considering the application of monitoring people in an enclosed environment, for example in a classroom or an examination setting, previously employed RFIDenabled solutions have yielded high costs and poor user acceptance. Previous studies have also shown ...
متن کاملOn the Acceptance of Privacy-Preserving Authentication Technology: The Curious Case of National Identity Cards
Many attempts have been made to replace the ubiquitous username-and-password authentication scheme in order to improve user security, privacy and usability. However, none of the proposed methods have gained wide-spread user acceptance. In this paper, we examine the users’ perceptions and concerns on using several alternative authentication methods on the Internet. We investigate the adoption of...
متن کاملUser Acceptance Factors for Anonymous Credentials: An Empirical Investigation
We describe theoretical development of a user acceptance model for anonymous credentials and its evaluation in a real-world trial. Although anonymous credentials and other advanced privacy-enhanced technologies (PETs) reached technical maturity, they are not widely adopted so far, such that understanding user adoption factors is one of the most important goals on the way to better privacy manag...
متن کاملCollaborative Privacy - A Community-Based Privacy Infrastructure
The landscape of the World Wide Web with all its versatile services heavily relies on the disclosure of private user information. Service providers collecting more and more of these personal user data pose a growing privacy threat for users. Addressing user concerns privacy-enhancing technologies emerged. One goal of these technologies is to enable users to improve the control over their person...
متن کامل