Valuating Privacy

  • Authors:
  • Bernardo A. Huberman;Eytan Adar;Leslie R. Fine

  • Affiliations:
  • HP Labs;HP Labs;HP Labs

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In several experimental auctions, participants put a dollar value on private information before revealing it to a group. An analysis of results show that a trait's desirability in relation to the group played a key role in the amount people demanded to publicize private information.