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.
Index Terms:
privacy, security, finance
Citation:
Bernardo A. Huberman, Eytan Adar, Leslie R. Fine, "Valuating Privacy," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 22-25, Sep./Oct. 2005, doi:10.1109/MSP.2005.137