The data privacy paradox and digital demand
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#2Evolutionary speaking, monocultures are risky. Usually resisting the mainstream is a mistake. Sometimes it really pays off in a big way.
It wouldn't be surprising if 'privacy conscious' people had substantial overlap with the 'I want to be different' crowd. I'm still a bit confused about how someone could actually be privacy conscious, it is too hard to understand the tech stack and too easy for data to get picked up by the ad companies of the internet. Let alone government actors.
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#3Genuine curiosity, is data privacy an actual topic in China (considering the purported ubiquitous state surveillance)?
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#5Evolutionary speaking, monocultures are risky. Usually resisting the mainstream is a mistake. Sometimes it really pays off in a big way. It wouldn't be surprising if 'privacy conscious' people had substantial overlap with the 'I want to be different' crowd. I'm still a bit confused about how someone could actually be privacy conscious, it is too hard to understand the tech stack and too easy for data to get picked up…
This study of Alipay users suggests that regardless of what you thought you were, initial user privacy-concerned activity was largely the same across groups that indicated low, medium, or high concern for privacy.
So in this case you wouldn't be talking about people who actually make different bets, just people who say they make different bets.
Regardless of how users rank themselves in terms of privacy concerns, intensity and duration of engagement with a plethora of Alipay services may be a better predictor of whether a user will engage in privacy-concerned behaviors. This suggests that actual privacy concern may be better described as a learned preference.
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#6Privacy is not a 'hygiene' need. People will never choose privacy over satisfying a (big enough) need. However, privacy-conscious people will always choose the private option between two identical services. They might even accept a discount on the usability because of privacy.
So yes, their behaviour might not change online but that is because there is no acceptable alternative. That is at least how i experience it.
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#7A study of privacy preferences within a Chinese walled garden? Talk about selling refrigerators to the Inuit...
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#8If interested, this is the study paper: https://www.nber.org/papers/w28854
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#9Privacy is not a 'hygiene' need. People will never choose privacy over satisfying a (big enough) need. However, privacy-conscious people will always choose the private option between two identical services. They might even accept a discount on the usability because of privacy. So yes, their behaviour might not change online but that is because there is no acceptable alternative. That is at least how i experience it.
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#10Yes, people give away their private data for small conveniences, much like how pets give away their natural lives in wilderness for a guaranteed meal and a warm house.
We are being domesticated by big companies!