Sören Preibusch

Sören Preibusch

I am a UK-based German researcher interested in the entire lifecycle of privacy policy negotiations. My work ranges from empirically underpinned design and deployment of incentive-compatible data collection and processing schemes, to technical enforcement mechanisms at the level of information flow. My publications give an account of the supply and demand for data protection on the social Web and in electronic business.

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Curriculum Vitae

Sören Preibusch is a Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge and has been involved with privacy research for more than six years. Using field and lab experiments, observations as well as online surveys, his research focuses on technical and economic aspects of privacy negotiations, including electronic market interactions, online social networking, and the mobile Web.

Mr. Preibusch has lead or accompanied the deployment of several public Web sites and has contributed to privacy and social networking themes within the World Wide Web Consortium. He holds a diploma in industrial engineering from Technical University Berlin (2008). Since 2003, Mr. Preibusch has been a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation.

CV / Lebenslauf Sören Preibusch (01.2013)

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Key Facts on Privacy Negotiations

Problem statement - Take-it-or-leave-it offers are the current corporate and regulatory practice: privacy policies are far from personalised. Yet, consumers value privacy quite differently and the worries they attach to particular data items vary. As a result, many frustrated and disappointed customers cancel online purchases or avoid online interaction.

Privacy Negotiations - In Privacy Negotiations, consumers and service providers establish, maintain, and refine privacy policies as individualised agreements through the ongoing choice amongst service alternatives.

Incentivised Privacy Negotiations - In incentivised privacy negotiations, the transaction partners may additionally bundle the personal information collection and processing schemes with monetary or non-monetary rewards.

Ethics of Privacy Negotiations - Privacy negotiations do not contravene the human right to informational self-determination. Consumers are not rewarded for renouncing their privacy, but agree on a price for personal information, which is an economic good. As a privacy-enhancing technology, incentivised privacy policy negotiations lift this price above null compensation.

Sören Preibusch, 2009

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