I stumbled across a really interesting article in the New York Times this past week. Dr. Alessandro Acquisti, a behavioral economist at Carnegie Mellon University points out some of the factors and circumstances which can drive our willingness to part with private information. Dr. Acquisti does not make any definitive conclusions within the article itself, but his observations are quite telling regarding personal behavior and how we might shape human-technology interaction to improve that behavior. Companies like Microsoft and Google have taken notice, providing grants to fund some new research avenues for the good doctor.
You can read the article here; it's worth your time. If you want more information about Dr. Acquisti, including some of his more detailed research you can find that information at this link. Oh, and I've loaded a particularly interesting paper of his regarding user-tolerance for security-related technical delays in the document repository. Enjoy!
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