This paper shows that privacy concerns in commercial contexts are not solely driven by a desire to control the … transmission of personal information or to avoid intrusive direct marketing campaigns. When they express privacy concerns … consequences of information transmission. We suggest that there is a homo economicus behind privacy concerns, not simply a primal …

Scholars and legal practitioners have found profound differences between the privacy practices of Europe and the United … Snowden revelations to produce the political opportunity for the formation of a trans-Atlantic movement on behalf of privacy. …

may choose the precision of monitoring. Also privacy costs incurred thereby are taken into account. Two alternative … data. With any contract scheme some monitoring will be optimal unless the privacy costs increase too fast in relation to … the precision of the monitoring signal. In the benchmark situation (without privacy costs) relying completely on both …

We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants were given the choice to buy a maximum of …

mšglich sind. Die BeitrŠge dieser Dissertation sind im Einzelnen: - Wir untersuchen die Eignung sog. Privacy … operations over encrypted data, also known as privacy homomorphisms, for creating protocols that could enable secure database …

range of different information sources. In more sensitive application areas however, the privacy of the data holders can be … of detail, patients are only willing to provide data when their privacy is guaranteed. This conflict of interest between … with a solution that is satisfactory to both. The specific contributions of this thesis are the following: - Privacy …

. Privacy on the Internet is investigated from a consumer perspective and recommendations for better privacy management for … practices and consumers’ privacy concerns. The research is carried out with special emphasis on retailers operating multiple … analysis of Web data requires that privacy restrictions must be adhered to. Thus the impact of legislative and self …

proposals for privacy protection, we focus on the question of controlled access to RFID tags. We conclude with a proposal for an …