[ NNSquad ] InfoWeek on Survey Bias Study: "Privacy Surveys Breed Privacy Fear"

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

InfoWeek on Survey Bias Study: "Privacy Surveys Breed Privacy Fear"
http://j.mp/j9BP1n  (This message on Google Buzz)

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http://j.mp/lGA1aa  ("Information Week" article)

    "In a paper to be featured at the forthcoming Symposium on Usable
     Privacy and Security--held July 20-22, 2011 at Carnegie Mellon
     University--three Google researchers have found that privacy surveys
     tend to make people fear for their privacy. And they propose a way to
     conduct such surveys indirectly, so that questions related to privacy
     don't provoke an emotional response."

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The paper itself -- recommended reading -- is at:

Indirect Content Privacy Surveys: Measuring Privacy Without Asking About It
http://j.mp/jNtOEz  (Google Research)

Some of my thoughts regarding this research are included in the
Information Week article linked above.

--Lauren--
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