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[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 151 points 6 days ago (29 children)

I cannot comprehend people who agree to have a spy in their own home and they even pay for the privilege.

[–] deddit@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (5 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.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (4 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.

[–] mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days 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.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Also says nothing about the validity of those emails.

Sure they can have my friend börg.börginson@notyourbusiness.com email address.

[–] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

I think they mean morally on the part of the student

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