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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Pizza Over Privacy", a Stanford study... https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/pizza-over-privacy-paradox-digital-age Basically, people trade their privacy for convenience and don't consider the long term cost.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To see whether a small incentive could influence a decision about privacy, researchers offered one group of students a free pizza — as long as they disclosed three friends’ email addresses.An overwhelming majority of the students chose pizza over protecting their friends’ privacy.

While I don't dispute the thesis, this is deeply flawed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

These students are giving away someone else's email addresses. They may deeply care about their own privacy and not care about the privacy of their friends. Plus giving away just email addresses (assuming there was nothing else) for a free pizza is not necessarily any invasion of privacy as these can be simply made up.

So I wouldn't draw any conclusions from this exercise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Also says nothing about the validity of those emails.

Sure they can have my friend börg.bö[email protected] email address.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

But they did give! They did not chose to deny and not have pizza.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I think they mean morally on the part of the student