Privacy tradeoffs in smartphone applications

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2015
Volume: 137
Issue: C
Pages: 171-175

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We use choice experiments to examine privacy tradeoffs in smartphone applications (“apps”). Results show that the representative consumer is willing to make a one-time payment for each app of about $2.28 to conceal their browser history, $4.05 to conceal their contacts, $1.19 to conceal their location, $1.75 to conceal their phone’s identification number, and $3.58 to conceal their texts. These valuations vary for different segments of society.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:137:y:2015:i:c:p:171-175
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-29