What can behavioral economics teach us about privacy?

Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies, and Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 363-377

  Acquisti, Alessandro ^a   Grossklags, Jens ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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