Consumers' privacy attitudes and policies about privacy protection

Last registered on November 04, 2020

Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Consumers' privacy attitudes and policies about privacy protection
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0006695
Initial registration date
November 03, 2020

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
November 04, 2020, 9:00 AM EST

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

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Primary Investigator

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Other Primary Investigator(s)

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Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2020-07-01
End date
2021-06-30
Secondary IDs
Abstract
This research mainly focuses on consumers' privacy attitudes and the formulation of corporate privacy protection policies. It also aims to explore what consumers really care about privacy and how people’s privacy concerns are affected by behavioral preferences in basic scenarios of AI applications. This project plans to find qualified personnel in several countries to participate in the online questionnaire survey, and the results can guide companies to formulate privacy care strategies in practice, and design privacy mechanisms that take into account the interests of consumers, companies, and governments.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Gao, Yu et al. 2020. "Consumers' privacy attitudes and policies about privacy protection ." AEA RCT Registry. November 04. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.6695-1.0
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
All the participants will be randomly divided into 2 groups equally. The treatment group will be displayed with the text which persuade them that relevant companies have strict encryption storage measures that can be applied to the private data, while irrelevant text will be presented to the control group.
Intervention Start Date
2020-11-08
Intervention End Date
2020-11-20

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
consumers' attitude toward privacy under different circumstances
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
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Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Between-subject design.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Randomized automatically by the questionnaire distribution system.
Randomization Unit
individual
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
N/A
Sample size: planned number of observations
4,200 people
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
2,100 control, 2,100 treatment
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
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IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
IRB Approval Date
2020-10-31
IRB Approval Number
PKU GSM-IRB reference code: #2020-13

Post-Trial

Post Trial Information

Study Withdrawal

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

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