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Why do we let our guard down on the Web?

April 1st, 2013 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Why do we let our guard down on the Web?

Somini Sengupta profiles Alessandro Acquisti, a behavioral economist at Carnegie Mellon University. Acquisti is attempting to understand why we so often hand over data to big companies on the Web even though we say we greatly value our privacy.

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