Values for Money: The Value of Personal Information in Crowdsourcing Platforms

Taub, Gilad; Elmalech, Avshalom; Aharony, Noa

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Title

Values for Money: The Value of Personal Information in Crowdsourcing Platforms

Author(s)

• Taub, Gilad
• Elmalech, Avshalom
• Aharony, Noa

Issue Date

2023-03-13

Keyword(s)

• Mmobile phone personal information
• Crowdworkers information
• Augmented reality and Security threats

Abstract

Over the past decade, we have witnessed an increase in the number of people working on crowdsourcing platforms. These people often use their mobile phones for work purposes, thus putting their per- sonal information at risk. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, we demonstrate the extent to which the personal information of crowdwork- ers is vulnerable. Second, we empirically evaluate people’s attitudes to requests for sharing different types of information. The Amazon Mechan- ical Turk (AMT) crowdsourcing platform was used to recruit participants from all around the world for our experiments. The results indicate that the majority of crowdworkers are willing to share their personal infor- mation with a random employer on this platform. In addition, there are certain types of information that they tend to share more than others.

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iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2023 Proceedings

Type of Resource

• Other
• text

Language

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/117386

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Copyright 2023 is held by Gilad Taub, Avshalom Elmalech, and Noa Aharony. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the author.

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