The purpose of this research, is to study factors influencing privacy concerns about data security and protection on social network sites and its’ influence on self-disclosure. 100 articles about privacy protection, data security, information disclosure and Information leakage on social networks were studied. Models and algorithms types and their repetition in articles have been distinguished a...

Online Social Networks (OSN) becomes the largest infrastructure for social interactions like: making relationship, sharing personal experiences and service delivery. Nowadays social networks have been widely welcomed by people. Most of the researches about managing privacy protection within social networks sites (SNS), observes users as owner of their information. However, individuals cannot co...

This paper reports on an empirical study that investigates the information disclosure behavior on Social Network Sites (SNS) focusing on undergraduate University students as our population. Although much have been reported on the issue of information privacy or privacy leakage on SNS, very few have employed the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) as a framework to understand SNS user’s behavior ...

Mobile devices, sensors and social networks have dramatically increased the collection and sharing of personal and contextual information of individuals. Hence, users constantly make disclosure decisions on the basis of a difficult trade-off between using services and data protection. Understanding the factors linked to the disclosure behavior of personal information is a step forward to assist...

What happens if a decision maker does not have the right information, and she does not know that she does not have this information? This type of incomplete information, formally called unawareness, is drawing more and more attention, especially in the literature on bounded rationality and behavioral economics. It is hard to deny that many individuals, such as consumers, investors, patients, wo...

this research intends to investigate the relationship between financial information transparency and investor behavior in tse, in order to provide safety trade and improve performance of the financial market in iran. in last decade transparency of the financial market has been known as one of the most effective variables in determining investor strategy. this study examines perception of transp...

We study the disclosure decision and price-setting behavior of competing firms in the presence of cursed consumers, who fail to be sufficiently skeptical about a firm’s quality upon observing non-disclosure of quality-relevant information. We show that neither competition nor the presence of sophisticated consumers necessarily offer protection to cursed consumers. Exploitation arises if markets...

Statistical database protection is a part of information security which tries to prevent published statistical information (tables, individual records) from disclosing the contribution of specific respondents. This paper shows how to use information-theoretic concepts to measure disclosure risk for tabular data. The proposed disclosure risk measure is compatible with a broad class of disclosure...

Traditional privacy research would suggest that whether to disclose personal information or not is an individual-based action. However in this paper, we suggest that the consideration of interpersonal level of interaction would also be of vital importance to privacy protection on Social Network Sites (SNS). Based on the theory of self-efficacy, we postulate a research framework that includes th...