Does imperfect data privacy stop people from collecting personal data?
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Does imperfect data privacy stop people from collecting personal data?
zbMATH Open document ID: 1403.91097
author: Simeon Schudy
author: Verena Utikal
published in: Games
publication date: 2018-07-10T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: Many companies try to access personal information to discriminate among consumers. We analyse how privacy regulations affect the acquisition and disclosure of information in a simple game of persuasion. Theory predicts that no data will be acquired with disclosure duty of collected data whereas consent law with perfect privacy results in complete information acquisition. Imperfect privacy, i.e., an environment in which leaks of collected data are possible, gives rise to multiple equilibria. Results from a laboratory experiment confirm the qualitative differences between consent law and disclosure duty and show that imperfect privacy does not stop people from collecting personal information.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91A90
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 94A62
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91B30
zbMATH DE Number: 6901024
zbMATH Keywords: data privacy
zbMATH Keywords: endogenous information acquisition
zbMATH Keywords: experiment
zbMATH Keywords: unravelling
zbMATH Keywords: health
describes a project that uses: Z-Tree
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: g9010014
OpenAlex ID: W2253005157
cites work: Refinements of the Nash equilibrium concept
cites work: Reexamination of the perfectness concept for equilibrium points in extensive games
DOI: 10.3390/G9010014
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6901024