!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] is a phenomenon that while online [End-Users] state their concerns about [privacy], their behaviors are not consistent with their concerns.[1]


"'Opting In': A Privacy Paradox," John Schwartz wrote that ''"It's one of the more puzzling conundrums of online life. While companies that capitalize on the Internet's powerful potential to invade privacy are denounced as villains of the information age, millions of people type out highly personal data and send it off to Web sites they've barely heard of, with no strong legal protection against misuse of the information. …The paradox helps illustrate the complexity of the debate over privacy."''


As outlined in [“What Can I Really Do?”|http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4655|target='_blank']:
* Privacy Pragmatists - evaluated [risks] and benefits of information provision (57%)
* Privacy Fundamentalists - highly concerned about [privacy] and willing to engage in privacy-protective behavior (25%)
* Privacy Unconcerned - happy to provide information to receive minor benefits, like discounts (18%)
However, when tested these categories in experimental settings, they found that even “Privacy Fundamentalists” were willing to reveal “private and highly personal information” to an e-commerce [Chatbots] that asked “non-legitimate and unimportant personal questions” during a shopping session. 

[{$pagename}] has two main thrusts:
* Talk about [privacy] does not follow people's [actions]
* implies the more control you provide the [Data subject] the more [Personal data] the [Data subject] tends to provide.

We’ve arrived at what famed venture capitalist [Mary Meeker] dubbed the “[{$pagename}]” in her annual [Internet Trends Report] ([2018|Year 2018]) this year. She noted, “''When you have rising monetization, rising growth and rising data collection, it drives a lot of regulatory scrutiny, whether it’s related to data privacy, competition or safety in content.''” 
Essentially, [personalization] is a profitable technological process dependent on [Data Collection]. Everyone is doing it now, and that draws the attention of [lawmakers|Government Entity].

!! Talk about [privacy] does not follow people's [actions]
Some admittingly random value take at least mostly from references below:
* 92% of American [internet] users say they are worried about their online [privacy] 
* 64% feel it should be a [human] right, 
* 31% understand how companies share their information. ([{$applicationname}] thinks this is much lower like how many understand [Real-Time Bidding])
* 45% updated privacy settings
* 16% stopped doing business with an impacted company
* 18% deleted a social media account.
* 2% [Opt-out] of [Advertising]
* few consumers use their [HIPAA] rights to get access to medical records, or use the option under the law to delete medical records.
[{$pagename}] is this yawning gap between the expressed concern and the actions users take.

[{$pagename}] suggests that young people claim to care about [privacy] while simultaneously providing a great deal of [personal information|Personal data] through social media. Our interviews revealed that young adults do understand and care about the potential risks associated with disclosing information online and engage in at least some [privacy]-protective behaviors on social media. However, they feel that once information is shared, it is ultimately out of their control. They attribute this to the opaque practices of institutions, the technological affordances of social media, and the concept of networked privacy, which acknowledges that individuals exist in social [contexts] where others can and do violate their [privacy].[3]

A [2012|Year 2012] survey, "[Parents, Teens, and Online Privacy|http://www.pewinternet.org/2012/11/20/parents-teens-and-online-privacy/|target='_blank'], from Harvard's [Berkman Center for Internet & Society] and the Pew Internet and American Life Project, finds that 81% of parents of younger [Internet] users express concern about the commercial exploitation of [personal data]; and 69% of parents of online teens are also concerned about the way a teen's reputation is being managed and the future implications of disclosures. The survey estimates that only 39% of parents of teens using [Social Websites] have helped their children adjust [privacy] settings.

!! [{$pagename}] [Privacy Policy] or [Regulation] cause [Unintended consequences]
A [2012|Year 2012] study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, "[Misplaced Confidences: Privacy and the Control Paradox|https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/docs/loewenstein/MisplacedConfidence.pdf|target='_blank']," investigates the extent to which a user's sense of control influences the type and amount of [personal information|Personal data] a user discloses online. The researchers, from Carnegie Mellon University, conducted three survey-based experiments with more than 450 participants from a North American university on the release or accessibility of personal information online. The goal was ultimately to see how, in practice, humans respond to increased privacy controls.\\
Given the findings of the study, such controls could have [unintended effects|Unintended consequence]. The paradoxical policy implication of these findings is that the feeling of [security] conveyed by the provision of fine-grained privacy controls may lower concerns regarding the actual accessibility and usability of information, driving those provided with such protections to reveal more sensitive information to a larger audience."

!! [{$pagename}] and [Loyalty Cards]
[Loyalty Cards] have many of the same tendencies of usage as other [Online] [privacy] and the same [Privacy Considerations] apply.


!! More Information
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:
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* [#1] - [Privacy_paradox|Wikipedia:Privacy#Privacy_paradox|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2017-06-28- 
* [#2] - [RIP, Privacy? The Strange Paradox of How We Act Online|http://bigthink.com/david-ryan-polgar/the-privacy-paradox-an-interview-with-manoush-zomorodi|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2017-06-28- 
* [#3] - [“What Can I Really Do?” Explaining the Privacy Paradox with Online Apathy|http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4655|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2017-06-28- 
* [#4] - [The privacy paradox: why do people keep using tech firms that abuse their data?|https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/05/privacy-paradox-why-do-people-keep-using-tech-firms-data-facebook-scandal|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2019-07-06 
* [#5] - [The privacy paradox|https://www.axios.com/consumer-data-privacy-protection-personal-adeba01c-fce2-43ad-890a-222bdbbb7f4a.html|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2019-07-06 
* [#6] - [The Privacy Paradox: The Right to Be Forgotten, But the Wish to Be Remembered|https://www.adweek.com/digital/the-privacy-paradox-the-right-to-be-forgotten-but-the-wish-to-be-remembered/|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2019-07-06