Abstract
A common definition of privacy centers on the idea that people have the right to choose their shared information and the people who access their information. When faced with a choice, individuals normally choose the option with the highest value after considering possible risks. This study investigates the impact of context and incentives on the individuals’ decisions to share personal and private information. This study uses the privacy panel 4 dataset from pew internet research center. The survey collects data about privacy related traits such as unauthorized access concerns, collection concerns, private personality and sharing personality. In addition, participants were given different scenarios. In each scenario an incentive is given such as getting more security or getting a technology product but in order to get the incentives, the participants have to share private information with the organization. We used logistic regression to analyze the data. Results show that individuals are not willing to share personal information to receive more security but are willing to do so if they have a sharing personality. On the other hand, people are willing to share personal information for a technology related incentives when they have no concerns over collection of information.
Recommended Citation
Abdelhamid, Mohamed and Chi, Austin, "The Influence of context and incentives on Private Information Sharing" (2019). AMCIS 2019 Proceedings. 13.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2019/treo/treos/13
The Influence of context and incentives on Private Information Sharing
A common definition of privacy centers on the idea that people have the right to choose their shared information and the people who access their information. When faced with a choice, individuals normally choose the option with the highest value after considering possible risks. This study investigates the impact of context and incentives on the individuals’ decisions to share personal and private information. This study uses the privacy panel 4 dataset from pew internet research center. The survey collects data about privacy related traits such as unauthorized access concerns, collection concerns, private personality and sharing personality. In addition, participants were given different scenarios. In each scenario an incentive is given such as getting more security or getting a technology product but in order to get the incentives, the participants have to share private information with the organization. We used logistic regression to analyze the data. Results show that individuals are not willing to share personal information to receive more security but are willing to do so if they have a sharing personality. On the other hand, people are willing to share personal information for a technology related incentives when they have no concerns over collection of information.