The Privacy Mismatch: Evolved Intuitions in a Digital World

Although people report grave concern over their data privacy, they take little care to protect it. We suggest that this privacy paradox can be understood in part as the consequence of an evolutionary mismatch: Privacy intuitions evolved in an environment that was radically different from the one fou...

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Autores principales: Shariff, Azim, Green, Joe, Jettinghoff, William
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8079797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33994679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721421990355
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description Although people report grave concern over their data privacy, they take little care to protect it. We suggest that this privacy paradox can be understood in part as the consequence of an evolutionary mismatch: Privacy intuitions evolved in an environment that was radically different from the one found online. This evolved privacy psychology leaves people disconnected from the consequence of online privacy threats.
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spelling pubmed-80797972021-05-13 The Privacy Mismatch: Evolved Intuitions in a Digital World Shariff, Azim Green, Joe Jettinghoff, William Curr Dir Psychol Sci Article Although people report grave concern over their data privacy, they take little care to protect it. We suggest that this privacy paradox can be understood in part as the consequence of an evolutionary mismatch: Privacy intuitions evolved in an environment that was radically different from the one found online. This evolved privacy psychology leaves people disconnected from the consequence of online privacy threats. SAGE Publications 2021-04-14 2021-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8079797/ /pubmed/33994679 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721421990355 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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