From the press release: "When perceiving they have more control over their personal
information, people increase their willingness to disclose sensitive
information that allows them to be personally identified, according to a study
done by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.
The study investigated how people respond when given control over their personal information, allowing them to choose how much to reveal about themselves. CMU researchers Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti and George Loewenstein found that users given more privacy controls share more sensitive information with larger, and possibly riskier, audiences." Read more
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