BACKGROUND Due to the growing availability of consumer information, the protection of personal data is of increasing concern. OBJECTIVE We assessed readability metrics of privacy policies for apps that are either available to or targeted toward youth to inform strategies to educate and protect youth from unintentional sharing of personal data. METHODS We reviewed the 1200 highest ranked app...

Proponents of e-commerce have known for some time that limited participation by consumers partially reflects their concern over the privacy of personal information. To address consumer concerns, web site operators have employed security mechanisms, including privacy policy statements to increase their perceived trustworthiness. While empirical evidence is limited, there is some question regardi...

A major part in the efforts to increase energy efficiency is the establishment of a smart energy grid. This is supposed to optimize power distribution and facilitate the delivery of fluctuating renewable energy. For these reasons, governments in the EU and US are pressing ahead with legislation for the introduction of smart meters into every household. The precise consumption measurements taken...

Recent scientific advances in the field of genetics have raised numerous medical, ethical and social issues. Insurance has assumed a prominent place in these discussions. From the consumer perspective, there is concern that insurers mi~ use genetic information to cldny coverage or invade, privacy. P.hysicians wor~ that oatients will avoid genetic testing and the benefits of disease prevention a...

Cloud computing the new paradigm, the future for IT consumer utility, the economy of scale approach, the illusion of un infinite resources availability, yet the debate over security and privacy issues is still undergoing and a common policy framework is missing. Research confirms that users are concern when presented with scenarios in which companies may put their data to uses of which they may...

Interests continue to grow in recent years for the adoption of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in many different areas including transportation and supply chain management. Those RFID-included objects can be targeted more efficiently by real-time tracking and instant management. However, because of the contact-less type of RFID remote retrieval, the transmission of data in the air is very...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems promise large scale, automated tracking solutions but also pose a threat to customer privacy. The tree-based hash protocol proposed by Molnar and Wagner presents a scalable, privacy-preserving solution. Previous analyses of this protocol concluded that an attacker who can extract secrets from a large number of tags can compromise privacy of other ta...

This note provides an economic approach to consumer privacy and data security based on the extensive economic literature on how information flows, and is used, in the marketplace. We apply that approach to consumer protection in privacy and data security, as a step toward the ultimate goal of facilitating well-grounded cost-benefit analysis of future policy and law enforcement action in this area.

This paper investigates to which degree privacy and security knowledge and global information privacy concern of a user influence mobile protection behavior. We performed a survey with 154 participants. The results of the survey suggest that both privacy and security knowledge and global information privacy concern are influential for mobile protection behavior. We find that low knowledge and l...