{"id":120,"date":"2007-09-08T02:15:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T16:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Liako.Biz\/2007\/09\/study-finds-people-would-not-pay-for-privacy-options\/"},"modified":"2007-09-08T02:15:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T16:15:58","slug":"study-finds-people-would-not-pay-for-privacy-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/study-finds-people-would-not-pay-for-privacy-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Study finds people would not pay for privacy options"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A 2007 study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and the University of California at Berkeley found that most subjects were unwilling to spend even a quarter [25 cents] to keep someone from selling sensitive information about them &#8212; such as their weight or number of sex partners. &#8220;People prefer money over data, always,&#8221; says Alessandro Acquisti, assistant professor of information technology and public policy at CMU. Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/techbiz\/startups\/news\/2007\/09\/privacy?currentPage=1\">Wired<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is privacy really that big a deal? In short &#8211; yes &#8211; but paying for paid privacy options is not something I am sure of. Rather, I would expect the forces to swell up like a hurricane that will require political action to enforce privacy as a legal right. As a business, you shouldn&#8217;t think of privacy as a revenue stream, but rather, a branding tool to build trust. It&#8217;s users ignorance of the truth, not acceptance of the consequences, that has people giving away their data. Don&#8217;t abuse that trust if given the opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2007 study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and the University of California at Berkeley found that most subjects were unwilling to spend even a quarter [25 cents] to keep someone from selling sensitive information about them &#8212; such as their weight or number of sex partners. &#8220;People prefer money over data, always,&#8221; says Alessandro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43,50,425,86,87,408,93,119,190,261,268,416,313,336,345],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dataportability","tag-advertising","tag-alessandro-acquisti","tag-aside","tag-brand","tag-branding","tag-business","tag-cali","tag-data","tag-information","tag-opportunity","tag-people","tag-privacy-dataportability","tag-search","tag-startup","tag-study","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}