The Impact of Salient Privacy Information on Decision-Making
The Impact of Salient Privacy Information on Decision-Making Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering and Public Policy Janice Y. Tsai B.S., Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Northwestern University M.L.I.S., School of Communication and Information, Rutgers M.S., Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA December 2009 Thesis Committee: Lorrie F. Cranor, Chair Alessandro Acquisti Baruch Fischhoff Jason Hong Peter Swire Keywords: Privacy, Online Privacy, Mobile-Location Privacy, Technology Adoption, Behavioral Economics Copyright c 2009 Janice Y. Tsai. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. To grandparents and to my husband Richard W. Sharp III, without whom this would not have been possible. iv Acknowledgments I recently took a trip to Taiwan to visit my grandparents. At their apartment, my grandfather proudly displayed the bookshelf of the theses of his children and grandchildren. The value that my parents and grandparents placed on education makes it possible for me to complete my PhD today. I was drawn to the Department of Engineering and Public Policy because the person who would become my advisor, Lorrie Cranor, took the time to thoughtfully answer my email inquiry about graduate studies at Carnegie Mel- lon. I am thankful for her willingness to always make time for her students.
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