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I prove that it is irrational for agents with even slightly private preferences to condition their strategy on private information that is payoff-irrelevant to them, contrary to powerful techniques for analyzing communication and repeated…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-29 Alistair Barton

While the public claim concern for their privacy, they frequently appear to overlook it. This disparity between concern and behaviour is known as the Privacy Paradox. Such issues are particularly prevalent on wearable devices. These…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Meredydd Williams , Jason R. C. Nurse , Sadie Creese

Video game designers often view confusion as undesirable, yet it is inevitable, as new players must adapt to new interfaces and mechanics in an increasingly varied and innovative game market, which is more popular than ever. Research…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Thomas Vase Schultz Volden , Oleg Jarma Montoya , Paolo Burelli , Marco Scirea

We study Bayesian coordination games where agents receive noisy private information over the game's payoff structure, and over each others' actions. If private information over actions is precise, we find that agents can coordinate on…

General Economics · Economics 2019-04-25 Dominik Grafenhofer , Wolfgang Kuhle

A common goal in the areas of secure information flow and privacy is to build effective defenses against unwanted leakage of information. To this end, one must be able to reason about potential attacks and their interplay with possible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Mário S. Alvim , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Yusuke Kawamoto , Catuscia Palamidessi

Context-aware reasoning systems allow drawing sophisticated inferences about users' behaviour and physiological condition, by aggregating data from seemingly unrelated sources. We conducted a general population online survey to evaluate…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Matthias Forstmann , Alberto Giaretta , Jennifer Renoux

Data ecosystems are becoming larger and more complex due to online tracking, wearable computing, and the Internet of Things. But privacy concerns are threatening to erode the potential benefits of these systems. Recently, users have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Jeffrey Pawlick , Quanyan Zhu

Privacy preference signals allow users to express preferences over how their personal data is processed. These signals become important in determining privacy outcomes when they reference an enforceable legal basis, as is the case with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Maximilian Hils , Daniel W. Woods , Rainer Böhme

To account for privacy perceptions and preferences in user models and develop personalized privacy systems, we need to understand how users make privacy decisions in various contexts. Existing studies of privacy perceptions and behavior…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-27 A K M Nuhil Mehdy , Michael D. Ekstrand , Bart P. Knijnenburg , Hoda Mehrpouyan

Machine learning (ML) algorithms are heavily based on the availability of training data, which, depending on the domain, often includes sensitive information about data providers. This raises critical privacy concerns. Anonymization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Héber H. Arcolezi , Mina Alishahi , Adda-Akram Bendoukha , Nesrine Kaaniche

We investigate how individuals form expectations about population behavior using statistical inference based on observations of their social relations. Misperceptions about others' connectedness and behavior arise from sampling bias…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-05-27 Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen , Martin Benedikt Busch

It is widely believed that one's peers influence product adoption behaviors. This relationship has been linked to the number of signals a decision-maker receives in a social network. But it is unclear if these same principles hold when the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Soumajyoti Sarkar , Ashkan Aleali , Paulo Shakarian , Mika Armenta , Danielle Sanchez , Kiran Lakkaraju

This paper initiates the study of the testable implications of choice data in settings where agents have privacy preferences. We adapt the standard conceptualization of consumer choice theory to a situation where the consumer is aware of,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-03 Rachel Cummings , Federico Echenique , Adam Wierman

In this paper, we consider a privacy signaling game problem for binary alphabets and single-bit transmission where a transmitter has a pair of messages, one of which is a casual message that needs to be conveyed, whereas the other message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Photios A. Stavrou , Serkan Sarıtaş , Mikael Skoglund

We study dynamic signaling when the informed party does not observe the signals generated by her actions. A long-run player signals her type continuously over time to a myopic second player who privately monitors her behavior; in turn, the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-07-31 Gonzalo Cisternas , Aaron Kolb

Internet tracking technologies and wearable electronics provide a vast amount of data to machine learning algorithms. This stock of data stands to increase with the developments of the internet of things and cyber-physical systems. Clearly,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Jeffrey Pawlick , Quanyan Zhu

The design of a statistical signal processing privacy problem is studied where the private data is assumed to be observable. In this work, an agent observes useful data $Y$, which is correlated with private data $X$, and wants to disclose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Motivated by applications in cyber security, we develop a simple game model for describing how a learning agent's private information influences an observing agent's inference process. The model describes a situation in which one of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Erik Miehling , Roy Dong , Cédric Langbort , Tamer Başar

As our ground transportation infrastructure modernizes, the large amount of data being measured, transmitted, and stored motivates an analysis of the privacy aspect of these emerging cyber-physical technologies. In this paper, we consider…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Roy Dong , Walid Krichene , Alexandre M. Bayen , S. Shankar Sastry

Data is the new oil; this refrain is repeated extensively in the age of internet tracking, machine learning, and data analytics. Social network analysis, cookie-based advertising, and government surveillance are all evidence of the use of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Jeffrey Pawlick , Quanyan Zhu