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Giving up your privacy for free after Snowden's revelation

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The massive collection of personal data revealed by Snowden in June 2013 has focused individuals' attention on possible personal data misuses by firms, or, even worse, by governments. This event represents an interesting natural experiment to study the evolution of individuals' privacy behaviors. We exploit this to investigate whether after these revelations, individuals feel more or less comfortable with the fact that some Internet companies provide access to free services in exchange for personal data. We analyze individual data collected in Europe before and after Snowden's revelations, and we estimate acceptance using pooled cross section. The results show that privacy concerns reduce the probability to accept the actual model as well as concern related to public video surveillance program. To measure the net effect of being informed about the collection of personal data, we use propensity score matching as we are able to distinguish informed and not informed individuals. We find that to be informed about the Snowden' revelations has reduced the probability to accept the actual model offered by Internet companies. The results suggest the existence of a demand for privacy and thus for privacy enhancing services.
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hal-02373793 , version 1 (21-11-2019)

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Grazia Cecere. Giving up your privacy for free after Snowden's revelation. 3rd Industrial Organization in the Digital Economy Workshop, Mar 2017, Liège, Belgium. ⟨hal-02373793⟩
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