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Websites often use icons to guide consumers to privacy choices. Designing effective icons can be difficult. Sites could improve results by testing icons before use.

Personalized Privacy Assistant (PPAs) will help users manage Internet of Things (IoT) device data collection. The best PPAs will learn from users and offer suggestions from unbiased sources.

Privacy laws require websites to offer consumers options such as the choice to opt out of advertising or to delete account data. On many sites, these options are poorly labelled and hard to find.

Consumers and firms face trade-offs in deciding when to protect or disclose personal information. Whether privacy makes consumers, firms, or society as a whole better off varies widely depending on the context. Consumers often lack information about how data will be used.

Billions of photographs are posted online, and facial recognition software is becoming more accurate. Researchers used photographs and off-the-shelf software to identify strangers in public places by name and predict their interests.

This article suggests that consumers are unable to put a consistent dollar value on what their privacy is worth.

This study looks at how the timing of displays of privacy information changes the behavior of consumers online.

This paper asks when sellers will tend to charge different prices to different buyers.