Das digitale Wirtschafsleben ist geprägt von der nahezu täglichen Angabe persönlicher Informationen zu verschiedenen Zwecken. Die Entlohnung dafür findet auf unterschiedliche Weisen statt: durch Preisreduktion, Produkt-Personalisierung oder scheinbar freie Nutzung von Dienstleistungen im...

Companies are under an increasing pressure by policy makers to publicize data breaches. Such notification obligations require announcing the loss of personal data collected from customers, because of hacker attacks or other incidents. While notification is likely to impact on firms' reputation,...

Breaches of the security of personal data collected by firms are reported almost daily. Companies are under an increasing political pressure to notify individuals whose privacy as been breached. At the moment, we know virtually nothing about the behavioral impact of data breach notifications. We...

Sub-Saharan Africa ranks among the top regions in terms of growth in the number of mobile phone users. The success of mobile telephony is attributed to the opening of markets for private players and lenient regulatory policy. However, markets may be increasingly saturated and new regulations...

Einkaufen in Internet, die Nutzung von sozialen Netzen oder Online- Banking gehören zum Alltag der Verbraucher in Deutschland. Das Thema Privatsphäre und Datenmissbrauch ist deshalb nahezu täglich in den Medien. Da ist es erstaunlich, dass fundiertes wissenschaftliches Wissen, wie Verbraucher...

In today's digital economy individuals need to constantly provide personal information for different purposes. The compensation for information disclosure occurs through various ways such as price reductions, product personalization, or the apparently free use of Internet services such as search...