The topic of the fourteenth episode of the second season of the „Efekt Sieci” podcast is online privacy and the price we have to pay for it. Over 75 percent of Internet users in Poland believe they have full (or partial) control over their online data. Among Europeans, the percentage is much lower, with only 14% holding a similar view. Why such differences? Is it better in Poland than in other countries?
Expert knowledge and results of his research are shared by Michal Paliński, a DELab UW analyst and PhD student at Faculty of Economic Sciences, UW, who answers questions from Dr. Justyna Pokojska about:
- sources of discrepancies in Eurobarometer surveys – whether we are a green island of online privacy or the opposite: we have little awareness of what happens to our data,
- the value of our personal information and how to calculate the „price” – what the Michał study concludes on this issue,
- which data is most valuable to different entities,
- our propensity to „trade” our data and the entities that make money from it,
- the ways in which digital entities monetize data,
- sources of the discrepancy between declarations (we don’t want to share our data online) and attitudes (we don’t read privacy policies).