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Re:The data privacy paradox and digital demand by roenxi on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @07:52AM (#27687390)
Evolutionary 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.

Re:The data privacy paradox and digital demand by threatofrain on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:03AM (#27687464)
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.