Big Data

Privacy in Big Data

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12.5.1 Information disclosure

Even though privacy is often considered as a technical issue, it is also important to understand

the user’s perspective. In a study on user behavior, [17] has shown that user’s globally tend to

disclose less information when users are faced with a system explicitly talking about privacy.

The interpretation given is that when privacy issues are put in the focus, users tend to become

more suspicious and therefore leak less information. This is quite a paradox as a system willing

to be transparent about privacy finds itself disadvantaged with respect to one not mentioning

privacy at all. However,