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  1. Reproducibility of social science research using differential privacy

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Alessandro Acquisti

  2. Beyond Search: LLM Adoption and Web Traffic Concentration

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  3. Does Privacy Regulation Harm Content Providers? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of the GDPR

    Article • Management Science, July 2025, INFORMS

    Alessandro Acquisti

  4. Economics of Privacy and Personal Data

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  5. Encouraging Users to Change Breached Passwords Using the Protection Motivation Theory

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  6. Adoption of 'Privacy-Preserving' Analytics: Drivers, Designs, & Decoupling

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2024, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  7. Online Intermediation in Legacy Industries: Evidence from the Adoption of Restaurant Reservation Platforms

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2024, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  8. The Economics of Privacy at a Crossroads

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  9. Trends in Privacy Dialog Design after the GDPR: The Impact of Industry and Government Actions

    Article • November 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  10. Learning to Live with Privacy-Preserving Analytics

    Article • Communications of the ACM, June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti Acquisti, Alessandro Acquisti

  11. Response to comment on “Policy impacts of statistical uncertainty and privacy”

    Article • Science, June 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alessandro Acquisti

  12. Nudges (and Deceptive Patterns) for Privacy

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Alessandro Acquisti

  13. An empirical analysis of sentencing of “Access to Information” computer crimes

    Article • Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, April 2023, Wiley

    Alessandro Acquisti

  14. Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical Investigation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2023, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  15. Grime and Punishment: Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2023, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  16. Is There a Reverse Privacy Paradox? An Exploratory Analysis of Gaps Between Privacy Perspectives and Privacy-Seeking Behaviors

    Article • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, January 2023, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium Advisory Board

    Alessandro Acquisti

  17. The Impact of Apple's App Tracking Transparency Framework on the App Ecosystem

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2023, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  18. The Impact of Apple's App Tracking Transparency Framework on the App Ecosystem

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2023, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  19. The Welfare Effects of Ad Blocking

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2023, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  20. Policy impacts of statistical uncertainty and privacy

    Article • Science, August 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alessandro Acquisti

  21. Increasing Adoption of Tor Browser Using Informational and Planning Nudges

    Article • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, March 2022, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium Advisory Board

    Alessandro Acquisti

  22. The Welfare Impact of Targeted Advertising Technologies

    Article • Information Systems Research, March 2022, INFORMS

    Alessandro Acquisti

  23. How privacy’s past may shape its future

    Article • Science, January 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alessandro Acquisti

  24. Does Privacy Regulation Harm Content Providers? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of the GDPR

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  25. Guns, Privacy, and Crime

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  26. Privacy and Behavioral Economics

    Article • July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  27. Toggles, Dollar Signs, and Triangles: How to (In)Effectively Convey Privacy Choices with Icons and Link Texts

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti, Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor

  28. Awareness, Adoption, and Misconceptions of Web Privacy Tools

    Article • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, April 2021, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium Advisory Board

    Alessandro Acquisti

  29. Information Frictions and Heterogeneity in Valuations of Personal Data

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  30. Economics of Privacy and Personal Data

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  31. Reasons For Both Pessimism And Optimism: A Response To The Commentaries

    Article • Journal of Consumer Psychology, October 2020, Wiley

    Alessandro Acquisti

  32. Secrets and Likes: The Drive for Privacy and the Difficulty of Achieving It in the Digital Age

    Article • Journal of Consumer Psychology, October 2020, Wiley

    Alessandro Acquisti

  33. "It's a scavenger hunt": Usability of Websites' Opt-Out and Data Deletion Choices

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti, Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor

  34. Informing the Design of a Personalized Privacy Assistant for the Internet of Things

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti, Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor

  35. An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks

    Article • Management Science, March 2020, INFORMS

    Alessandro Acquisti

  36. A Sense of Privacy

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  37. Editorial: Special issue on cyber security, privacy and ethics of information systems

    Article • Information Systems Frontiers, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  38. Can Privacy Nudges be Tailored to Individuals' Decision Making and Personality Traits?

    Article • November 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  39. Should Credit Card Issuers Reissue Cards in Response to a Data Breach?

    Article • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  40. When and why randomized response techniques (fail to) elicit the truth

    Article • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, September 2018, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  41. Nudges for Privacy and Security

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, May 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti, Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor

  42. Beyond the Privacy Paradox: Objective Versus Relative Risk in Privacy Decision Making

    Article • MIS Quarterly, February 2018, MIS Quarterly

    Alessandro Acquisti

  43. ICT Challenges and Opportunities in Building a “Bright Society”

    Article • Journal of the Association for Information Systems, February 2018, Association for Information Systems

    Alessandro Acquisti

  44. Differential discounting and present impact of past information.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  45. Interrupting Interruptions: A Digital Experiment on Social Media and Performance

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2018, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  46. Beyond the Turk: Alternative platforms for crowdsourcing behavioral research

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, May 2017, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  47. Not All Privacy Is Created Equal: The Welfare Impact of Targeted Advertising

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2017, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  48. The impact of reversibility on the decision to disclose personal information

    Article • Journal of Consumer Marketing, September 2016, Emerald

    Alessandro Acquisti

  49. A Query-Theory Perspective of Privacy Decision Making

    Article • The Journal of Legal Studies, June 2016, University of Chicago Press

    Alessandro Acquisti

  50. The Economics of Privacy

    Article • Journal of Economic Literature, June 2016, American Economic Association

    Alessandro Acquisti

  51. Engineering Information Disclosure

    Article • May 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  52. The Impact of Privacy Regulation and Technology Incentives: The Case of Health Information Exchanges

    Article • Management Science, April 2016, INFORMS

    Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti

  53. Beyond the Privacy Paradox: Objective versus Relative Risk in Privacy Decision Making

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2016, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  54. Choice Architecture, Framing, and Cascaded Privacy Choices

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2016, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  55. Nudges for Privacy and Security: Understanding and Assisting Userss Choices Online

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2016, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  56. The Impact of Timing on the Salience of Smartphone App Privacy Notices

    Article • October 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  57. Personal data markets

    Article • Electronic Markets, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  58. The challenges of personal data markets and privacy

    Article • Electronic Markets, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  59. Your Location has been Shared 5,398 Times!

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  60. I Would Like To..., I Shouldn't..., I Wish I...

    Article • February 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  61. Privacy and human behavior in the age of information

    Article • Science, January 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alessandro Acquisti

  62. Beyond the Turk: An Empirical Comparison of Alternative Platforms for Online Behavioral Research

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  63. The Economics of Privacy

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  64. Face Recognition and Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality

    Article • Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, December 2014, Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality

    Alessandro Acquisti

  65. A field trial of privacy nudges for facebook

    Article • April 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  66. Building the security behavior observatory

    Article • April 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  67. Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation

    Article • Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, January 2014, Wiley

    Alessandro Acquisti

  68. “Heads or tails?”—A reachability bias in binary choice.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  69. Spiny CACTOS: OSN Users Attitudes and Perceptions Towards Cryptographic Access Control Tools

    Article • January 2014, Internet Society

    Alessandro Acquisti

  70. Reputation as a sufficient condition for data quality on Amazon Mechanical Turk

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  71. Editorial

    Article • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, December 2013, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  72. Inducing Customers to Try New Goods

    Article • Review of Industrial Organization, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  73. Privacy manipulation and acclimation in a location sharing application

    Article • September 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  74. Self-Reported Social Network Behavior: Accuracy Predictors and Implications for the Privacy Paradox

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  75. Sleights of privacy

    Article • July 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  76. Gone in 15 Seconds: The Limits of Privacy Transparency and Control

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, July 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  77. What Is Privacy Worth?

    Article • The Journal of Legal Studies, June 2013, University of Chicago Press

    Alessandro Acquisti

  78. Privacy nudges for social media

    Article • May 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  79. "i read my Twitter the next morning and was astonished"

    Article • April 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  80. Complementary Perspectives on Privacy and Security: Economics

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, March 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  81. Silent Listeners: The Evolution of Privacy and Disclosure on Facebook

    Article • Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, March 2013, Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality

    Alessandro Acquisti

  82. Tweets are forever

    Article • February 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  83. Public Response to Alerts and Warnings Using Social Media

    Article • January 2013, The National Academies Press

    Alessandro Acquisti

  84. 'I Cheated, But Only a Little' – Partial Confessions to Unethical Behavior

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  85. The Oxford handbook of the digital economy

    Article • November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  86. Misplaced Confidences

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, August 2012, SAGE Publications

    Alessandro Acquisti

  87. The Economics of Privacy

    Article • August 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  88. The Impact of Relative Standards on the Propensity to Disclose

    Article • Journal of Marketing Research, April 2012, SAGE Publications

    Alessandro Acquisti

  89. An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination Via Online Social Networks

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  90. Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  91. Nudging Privacy: The Behavioral Economics of Personal Information

    Article • January 2012, IOS Press

    Alessandro Acquisti

  92. Do Interruptions Pay off? Effects of Interruptive Ads on Consumers' Willingness to Pay

    Article • Journal of Interactive Marketing, November 2011, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  93. The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study

    Article • Information Systems Research, June 2011, INFORMS

    Alessandro Acquisti, Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor

  94. Do data breach disclosure laws reduce identity theft?

    Article • Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, March 2011, Wiley

    Alessandro Acquisti

  95. Strangers on a Plane: Context-Dependent Willingness to Divulge Sensitive Information

    Article • Journal of Consumer Research, February 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  96. Les comportements de vie privée face au commerce électronique

    Article • Réseaux, January 2011, CAIRN

    Alessandro Acquisti

  97. "I regretted the minute I pressed share"

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  98. Do Interruptions Pay Off? - Effects of Interruptive Ads on Consumers’ Willingness to Pay

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2011, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  99. Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2011, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  100. Teaching Johnny not to fall for phish

    Article • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, May 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti, Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor

  101. Behavioral research and empirical modeling of marketing channels: Implications for both fields and a call for future research

    Article • Marketing Letters, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  102. From the Economics to the Behavioral Economics of Privacy: A Note

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  103. Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  104. Nudging Privacy: The Behavioral Economics of Personal Information

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, November 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  105. Improving phishing countermeasures: An analysis of expert interviews

    Article • October 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  106. Predicting Social Security numbers from public data

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Alessandro Acquisti

  107. Timing is everything?

    Article • April 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  108. The Best of Strangers: Context Dependent Willingness to Divulge Personal Information

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2009, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  109. School of phish

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  110. The impact of privacy indicators on search engine browsing patterns

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  111. Lessons from a real world evaluation of anti-phishing training

    Article • October 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  112. Identity Management, Privacy, and Price Discrimination

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, March 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  113. What Can Behavioral Economics Teach Us about Privacy?

    Article • December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Alessandro Acquisti

  114. Digital Privacy

    Article • December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Alessandro Acquisti

  115. What Can Behavioral Economics Teach Us about Privacy?

    Article • December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Alessandro Acquisti

  116. Session details: Session M1: privacy in e-commerce

    Article • August 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  117. Protecting people from phishing

    Article • April 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  118. Anti-Phishing Phil

    Article • January 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  119. Getting users to pay attention to anti-phishing education

    Article • January 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  120. Trust modelling for online transactions

    Article • October 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  121. Power strips, prophylactics, and privacy, oh my!

    Article • January 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  122. Privacy patterns for online interactions

    Article • January 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti

  123. What's It To You? A Survey of Online Privacy Concerns and Risks

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2006, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  124. Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  125. Conditioning Prices on Purchase History

    Article • Marketing Science, August 2005, INFORMS

    Alessandro Acquisti

  126. Privacy and rationality in individual decision making

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, January 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  127. Information revelation and privacy in online social networks

    Article • January 2005, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  128. Economics of Information Security

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  129. Privacy in electronic commerce and the economics of immediate gratification

    Article • January 2004, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  130. Representation and reasoning for DAML-based policy and domain services in KAoS and nomads

    Article • July 2003, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alessandro Acquisti

  131. Adjustable Autonomy and Human-Agent Teamwork in Practice: An Interim Report on Space Applications

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  132. On the Economics of Anonymity

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  133. Agent-Based Modeling of Collaboration and Work Practices Onboard the International Space Station

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2002, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  134. Conditioning Prices on Purchase History

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2002, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  135. Multiagent Plan Execution and Work Practice: Modeling Plans and Practices Onboard the ISS

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2002, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  136. Job Creation And Job Destruction In Russia: Some Preliminary Evidence From Enterprise-Level Data

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2001, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  137. Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, December 1999, Elsevier

    Alessandro Acquisti

  138. Privacy and Human Behavior in the Information Age*

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Alessandro Acquisti

  139. The Economics and Behavioral Economics of Privacy

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Alessandro Acquisti

  140. Countermeasures against Government-Scale Monetary Forgery

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  141. Ubiquitous Computing, Customer Tracking, and Price Discrimination

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  142. Privacy and Rationality

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  143. Privacy Attitudes and Privacy Behavior

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti

  144. Privacy and Security of Personal Information

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Alessandro Acquisti