ABSTRACT Power Strips, Prophylactics, and Privacy, Oh My! (2008)
Julia Gideon, Lorrie Cranor, Serge Egelman, Alessandro Acquisti
While Internet users claim to be concerned about online privacy, their behavior rarely reflects those concerns. In this paper we investigate whether the availability of comparison information about...
Alessandro Acquisti, Maarten Sierhuis, William J. Clancey, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
ABSTRACT: The International Space Station is one the most complex projects ever, with numerous interdependent constraints affecting productivity and crew safety. This requires planning years before...
Privacy Patterns for Online Interactions (2008)
Sasha Romanosky, Alessandro Acquisti, Jason Hong, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Batya Friedman
ABSTRACT 1 A proper security architecture is an essential part of implementing robust and reliable networked applications. Security patterns have shown how reoccurring problems can be best solved...
Economics of Information Security Privacy and Rationality in Individual Decision Making (2008)
Alessandro Acquisti, Jens Grossklags
Traditional theory suggests consumers should be able to manage their privacy. Yet, empirical and theoretical research suggests that consumers often lack enough information to make privacy-sensitive...
Alessandro Acquisti, Cod Jel D, Rivista Di
ad un reporter del Washington Post l’accesso ai dati medici e necrologici di Ryma. Rivelare quei dati, spiegò la direttrice dello zoo, avrebbe violato il suo diritto alla privacy (Grimaldi, 2002)....
Chapter 1 PRIVACY ATTITUDES AND PRIVACY BEHAVIOR Losses, Gains, and Hyperbolic Discounting (2008)
Alessandro Acquisti, Jens Grossklags
Abstract Surveys and experiments have uncovered a dichotomy between stated attitudes and actual behavior of individuals facing decisions affecting their privacy and their personal information...
Dichotomies between privacy attitudes and behavior have been noted in the literature but not yet fully explained. We apply lessons from the research on behavioral economics to understand the...
Alessandro Acquisti, Rahul Telang, Allan Friedman
While the infosec economics literature has begun to investigate the stock market impact of security breaches and vulnerability announcements, little more than anecdotal evidence exists on effects of...
DRAFT – VERY PRELIMINARY Abstract (2008)
Alessandro Acquisti, Bin Zhang
complied with the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA) and started providing free copies of their credit reports to any consumers who requested it. The FACTA initiative was overseen by...
Privacy Patterns for Online Interactions (2008)
Sasha Romanosky, Alessandro Acquisti, Jason Hong, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Batya Friedman
ABSTRACT 1 A proper security architecture is an essential part of implementing robust and reliable networked applications. Security patterns have shown how reoccurring problems can be best solved...
Economics of Information Security Privacy and Rationality in Individual Decision Making (2008)
Alessandro Acquisti, Jens Grossklags
Traditional theory suggests consumers should be able to manage their privacy. Yet, empirical and theoretical research suggests that consumers often lack enough information to make privacy-sensitive...
Ralph Gross, Alessandro Acquisti, H. John, Heinz Iii
Participation in social networking sites has dramatically increased in recent years. Services such as Friendster, Tribe, or the Facebook allow millions of individuals to create online profiles and...
Alessandro Acquisti, Maarten Sierhuis, William J. Clancey, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
ABSTRACT: The International Space Station is one the most complex projects ever, with numerous interdependent constraints affecting productivity and crew safety. This requires planning years before...
Trinity Economic Paper Series (2007)
Alessandro Acquisti, Jel Classification P, Hartmut Lehmann
We study Russian job dynamics in transition using micro-level data sets from the December 1996 and June 1997 administrative records of firms in manufacturing, mining, trading and construction, for a...
Anonymous Credentials through Acid Mixing ∗ (2007)
Reliability and trust are open issues in the MIX-net literature. We present a variation on the MIX-net approach that can be used to issue anonymous credentials and protect the privacy of participants...
Jens Grossklags, Alessandro Acquisti, H. John Heinz
We present an empirical study of willingness-to-pay for protecting information (we term it willingness-to-protect) and willingness-to-accept a proposal to sell information (willingness-to-accept). We...
The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study (2007)
Janice Tsai, Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti
While most people claim to be very concerned about their privacy, they do not consistently take actions to protect it. Web retailers detail their information practices in their privacy policies, but...
Jens Grossklags, Alessandro Acquisti, H. John Heinz
We present an empirical study of willingness-to-pay for protecting information (we term it willingness-to-protect) and willingness-to-accept a proposal to sell information (willingness-to-accept). We...
Privacy Patterns for Online Interactions (2006)
Sasha Romanosky Alessandro, Alessandro Acquisti, Jason Hong, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Batya Friedman
A proper security architecture is an essential part of implementing a robust and reliable networked application. Security patterns have shown how reoccurring problems can be best solved with proven...
Is there a cost to privacy breaches? An event study (2006)
Alessandro Acquisti, Rahul Telang, Allan Friedman
Pre-proceeding draft version While the literature on information security economics has begun to investigate the stock market impact of security breaches and vulnerability announcements, little more...
Conditioning prices on purchase history (2005)
Alessandro Acquisti, Hal R. Varian
Many transactions are now computer mediated, making it possible for sellers to condition their pricing on the history of interactions with individual consumers. This paper investigates conditions...
Ubiquitous Computing, Customer Tracking, and Price Discrimination (2005)
The availability and cost-efficiency of modern information and communication technology have made “interactive marketing ” and individual customer addressability not only possible but economical....
Receipt-free homomorphic elections and writein ballots (2004)
We present a voting protocol that protects voters' privacy and achieves universal verifiability, receipt-freeness, and uncoercibility without ad hoc physical assumptions or procedural...
Privacy in Electronic Commerce and the Economics of Immediate Gratification (2004)
Dichotomies between privacy attitudes and behavior have been noted in the literature but not yet fully explained. We apply lessons from the research on behavioral economics to understand the...
We present a voting protocol that protects voters ’ privacy and achieves universal verifiability, receipt-freeness, and uncoercibility without ad hoc physical assumptions or procedural constraints...
Privacy and security of personal information: Economic incentives and technological solutions (2004)
Abstract I discuss the evolution of the economic analysis of privacy, and then distinguish between the on-line and the off-line identities of an individual. Each type of identity raises different...
Abstract. We present a voting protocol that protects voters ’ privacy and achieves universal verifiability, receipt-freeness, and uncoercibility without ad hoc physical assumptions or procedural...
Essays on privacy, anonymity, and tracking in computer-mediated economic transactions / (2003)
Thesis (Ph. D. in Information Management and Systems)--University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2003.
Alessandro Acquisti, Jens Grossklags
2nd Annual Workshop on “Economics and Information Security” Surveys and experiments have uncovered a dichotomy between stated attitudes and actual behavior of individuals facing decisions...
On the Economics of Anonymity (2003)
Alessandro Acquisti, Roger Dingledine, Paul Syverson
Abstract. Decentralized anonymity infrastructures are still not in wide use today. While there are technical barriers to a secure robust design, our lack of understanding of the incentives to...
On the Economics of Anonymity (2003)
Alessandro Acquisti, Ro Acquisti, Roger Dingledine, Paul Syverson
Decentralized anonymity infrastructures are still not in wide use today. While there are technical barriers to a secure robust design, our lack of understanding of the incentives to participate in...
An user-centric MIX-net protocol to protect privacy (2002)
“MIX-net ” systems protect the privacy of participants by clouding together their transactions through cascades of third parties. Reliability and trust are therefore open issues in this...
Protecting Privacy with Economics: (2002)
Economic Incentives For, Alessandro Acquisti
Ubiquitous computing environments make the economic analysis of privacy more di#cult as they exacerbate information asymmetries and uncertainties. This paper discusses why the actual marketization of...
Maarten Sierhuis, Alessandro Acquisti, William J. Clancey
ABSTRACT: Numerous interdependent and uncertain constraints affect plan execution onboard a space ship. Plans are often invalid as they are being executed in the real world. Human work practices...
Grime and punishment: job insecurity and wage arrears in the Russian Federation (1998)
Lehmann, Hartmut, Wadsworth, Jonathan, Acquisti, Alessandro
The initial years of transition in the Russian Federation have been characterised by relatively smaller falls in employment than in other reform-orientated countries of eastern Europe, despite the...
Grime and punishment: job insecurity and wage arrears in the Russian Federation (1998)
Lehmann, Hartmut, Wadsworth, Jonathan, Acquisti, Alessandro
The initial years of transition in the Russian Federation have been characterised by relatively smaller falls in employment than in other reform-orientated countries of eastern Europe, despite the...
Grime and Punishment: Employment, Wages and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation (1997)
Lehmann, Hartmut, Wadsworth, Jonathan, Acquisti, Alessandro
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Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Russian Federation
Alessandro Acquisti, Hartmut Lehmann
We study Russian job dynamics in transition using micro-level data sets from the December 1996 and June 1997 administrative records of firms in manufacturing, mining, trading and construction, for a...
Grime And Punishment: Job Insecurity And Wage Arrears in The Russian Federation
Lehmann, Hartmut, Wadsworth, Jonathan, Acquisti,Alessandro
The initial years of transition in the Russian federation have been characterised by relatively smaller falls in employment than observed in other reform- orientated countries of Eastern Europe. We...
'Intelligent' vs Human Capital in the Endogenous/Exogenous Growth Debate
Acquisti, Alessandro, Baldassarri, Mario
We present a model of growth à la Lucas with two 'competing' factors. The first needs to allocate its time between production, accumulation and a non productive activity (rest or leisure). The...
Job Creation and Job Destruction in Russia: Some Preliminary Evidence from Enterprise-level Data
Alessandro Acquisti, Hartmut Lehmann
We study job gross flows in Russia using large enterprise-level data sets from 1997 administrative records of firms in manufacturing and mining, construction and distribution and trade in four...
Grime and Punishment: Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation
Lehmann, Hartmut, Wadsworth, Jonathan, Acquisti, Alessandro
Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that the dominant form of labor market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages....
Contidioning Prices on Purchase History
Alessandro Acquisti, Hal R. Varian
Many transactions are now computer mediated, making it possible for sellers to condition their pricing on the history of interactions with individual consumers. This paper investigates conditions...
Von Neumann's Legacy: 'Intelligent' Capital in a Weightless Economy
We analyze the production factor which is behind the phenomenon of the de-materialization of advanced economies: synergic combinations of electronic hardware and software, which are capable of...
Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation
Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth, Alessandro Acquisti
Using information from two complementary household survey datasets, we show that the dominant form of labour market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages....
What’s It To You? A Survey of Online Privacy Concerns and Risks
Janice Tsai, Lorrie Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti, Christina Fong
Finding information about privacy practices can be difficult: privacy policies often do not present this information in an accessible way. People typically do not know how or for what purpose their...
Predicting Social Security numbers from public data
Acquisti, Alessandro, Gross, Ralph
Information about an individual's place and date of birth can be exploited to predict his or her Social Security number (SSN). Using only publicly available information, we observed a correlation...