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Laura Brandimarte

  • Associate Professor, Management Information Systems
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
  • (520) 621-2748
  • McClelland Hall, Rm. 430
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • lbrandimarte@arizona.edu
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Public Policy and Management
    • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
    • Self-disclosures, impression formation, and biases in Web 2.0
  • M.S. Economics
    • London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
    • Multiplier and competition effects: explaining the dynamics of the U.S. tyre industry

Awards

  • Privacy Paper Award
    • International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), Fall 2014
  • Multidisciplinary Privacy Research Award
    • Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP), Spring 2013 (Award Finalist)

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Interests

Research

Privacy, Behavioral aspects of privacy decision making, Experiments, Social Media

Teaching

Privacy

Courses

2024-25 Courses

  • Info Sec Publ+Priv Sect
    MIS 515 (Summer I 2025)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Summer I 2025)
  • Business Foundations/IT
    MIS 513 (Spring 2025)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 411 (Spring 2025)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Spring 2025)

2023-24 Courses

  • Info Sec Publ+Priv Sect
    MIS 515 (Summer I 2024)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Summer I 2024)
  • Business Foundations/IT
    MIS 513 (Spring 2024)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 411 (Spring 2024)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Spring 2024)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Fall 2023)

2022-23 Courses

  • Info Sec Publ+Priv Sect
    MIS 515 (Summer I 2023)
  • Business Foundations/IT
    MIS 513 (Spring 2023)
  • Independent Study
    MIS 699 (Spring 2023)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 411 (Spring 2023)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Spring 2023)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • Info Sec Publ+Priv Sect
    MIS 515 (Summer I 2022)
  • Business Foundations/IT
    MIS 513 (Spring 2022)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 411 (Spring 2022)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Spring 2022)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Info Sec Publ+Priv Sect
    MIS 515 (Summer I 2021)
  • Business Foundations/IT
    MIS 513 (Spring 2021)
  • Honors Thesis
    MIS 498H (Spring 2021)
  • Independent Study
    MIS 699 (Spring 2021)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 411 (Spring 2021)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Spring 2021)
  • Honors Thesis
    MIS 498H (Fall 2020)
  • Independent Study
    MIS 699 (Fall 2020)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Info Sec Publ+Priv Sect
    MIS 515 (Summer I 2020)
  • Business Foundations/IT
    MIS 513 (Spring 2020)
  • Honors Thesis
    PPEL 498H (Spring 2020)
  • Independent Study
    MIS 699 (Spring 2020)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 411 (Spring 2020)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Spring 2020)
  • Honors Thesis
    PPEL 498H (Fall 2019)
  • Independent Study
    MIS 699 (Fall 2019)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Info Sec Publ+Priv Sect
    MIS 515 (Summer I 2019)
  • Business Foundations/IT
    MIS 513 (Spring 2019)
  • Independent Study
    MIS 699 (Spring 2019)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 411 (Spring 2019)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Spring 2019)
  • Independent Study
    MIS 699 (Fall 2018)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Fall 2018)

2017-18 Courses

  • Business Foundations/IT
    MIS 513 (Spring 2018)
  • Info Sec Publ+Priv Sect
    MIS 515 (Spring 2018)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 411 (Spring 2018)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Spring 2018)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Fall 2017)

2016-17 Courses

  • Computers/Internet Society Lab
    MIS 111L (Spring 2017)
  • Honors Thesis
    MIS 498H (Spring 2017)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 411 (Spring 2017)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Spring 2017)
  • Computers/Internet Society Lab
    MIS 111L (Fall 2016)
  • Honors Thesis
    MIS 498H (Fall 2016)

2015-16 Courses

  • Computers/Internet Society Lab
    MIS 111L (Spring 2016)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 411 (Spring 2016)
  • Socl+Eth Issues/Internet
    MIS 511 (Spring 2016)

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Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

  • Brandimarte, L., & Acquisti, A. (2012). The Economics of Privacy. In Handbook of the Digital Economy.

Journals/Publications

  • Lin, F., Samtani, S., Zhu, H., Brandimarte, L., & Chen, H. (2022). Automated Analysis of Changes in Privacy Policies: A Structured Self-Attentive Sentence Embedding Approach. MISQ.
  • Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., & Hancock, J. (2022). How Privacy’s Past May Shape Its Future. Science, 365(6578), 270-272.
  • Brandimarte, L., Pecchi, L., & Piga, G. (2021). Big Tech: Slaves of the Law in order to Be Free?. Diritto Pubblico, 811-835.
  • Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2020). Reasons for both pessimism and optimism: A response to the commentaries. Journal of Consumer Psychology.
  • Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2020). Secrets and Likes: The Drive for Privacy and the Difficulty of Achieving It in the Digital Age.. Journal of Consumer Psychology.
  • Lobschat, L., Muller, B., Eggers, F., Brandimarte, L., Diefenbach, S., Kroshke, M., & Wirtz, J. (2020). Corporate Digital Responsibility. Journal of Business Research.
  • Brandimarte, L., Lobschat, L., Mueller, B., & Eggers, F. (2019). Corporate Digital Responsibility. Journal of Business Research.
  • Terlizzi, M. A., Brandimarte, L., & Sanchez, O. P. (2019). Replication of Internet Privacy Concerns in the Mobile Banking Context. AIS Transactions on Replication Research.
  • Brandimarte, L., Vosgerau, J., & Acquisti, A. (2018). Differential Discounting and Present Impact of Past Information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
  • Acquisti, A., Adjerid, I., Balebako, R., Brandimarte, L., Cranor, L. F., Komanduri, S., Leon, P. G., Sadeh, N., Schaub, F., Sleeper, M., Wang, Y., & Wilson, S. (2017). Nudges for Privacy and Security: Understanding and Assisting Users’ Choices Online. ACM Computing Surveys.
  • Pe'er, E., Brandimarte, L., Samat, S., & Acquisti, A. (2017). Beyond the Turk: Alternative platforms for crowdsourcing behavioral research. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
  • Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2015). Privacy and human behavior in the age of information. Science, 347(6221), 509-514.
  • Brandimarte, L. (2015). Surveillance. Rivista di Politica Economica.
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    In Italian.
  • Acquisti, A., Adjerid, I., & Brandimarte, L. (2013). Gone in 15 Seconds: The Limits of Privacy Transparency and Control. IEEE Security & Privacy.
  • Brandimarte, L., Acquisti, A., & Loewenstein, G. (2013). Misplaced Confidences: Privacy and the Control Paradox. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Proceedings Publications

  • Brandimarte, L., Brandimarte, L., Brown, S. A., Brown, S. A., Suntwal, S., & Suntwal, S. (2021, January). Pictographs, Ideograms, and Emojis (PIE): A Framework for Empirical Research Using Non-verbal Cues. In Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS).
  • Sanchez, O., Brown, S. A., Brandimarte, L., & Terlizzi, M. (2019, Summer). Privacy concerns and protection motivation theory in the context of mobile banking. In 27th European Conference on Information Systems.
  • Terlizzi, M., Brandimarte, L., Brown, S. A., & Sanchez, O. (2018, December). Privacy concerns and protection motivation theory in the context of mobile banking. In 27th European Conference on Information Systems.
  • Balsa, E., Brandimarte, L., Acquisti, A., Diaz, C., & Gurses, S. (2014, February). Spiny CACTOS: OSN Users Attitudes and Perceptions Towards Cryptographic Access Control Tools. In Workshop on Usable Security (USEC 2014).
  • Woodruff, A., Pihur, V., Acquisti, A., Consolvo, S., Schmidt, L., & Brandimarte, L. (2014, July). Would a privacy fundamentalist sell their DNA for $1000... if nothing bad happened thereafter? A study of the Westin categories, behavioral intentions, and consequences. In Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2014).
    More info
    International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) SOUPS Privacy Award Winner
  • Adjerid, I., Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2013, July). Sleights of Privacy: Framing, Disclosures, and the Limits of Transparency. In Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2013).
  • Balebako, R., Pe'er, E., Brandimarte, L., Cranor, L. F., & Acquisti, A. (2013, October). Is it the Typeset or the Type of Statistics? Disfluent Font does not Reduce Self-disclosure. In Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER 2013).

Presentations

  • Brandimarte, L. (2021). Trust via Transparency: TD-CHAIN, a system to enhance transparency in data flows. Workshop on Digital Trust. Online: Center for Trust Studies, University of Arizona.
  • Brandimarte, L. (2019, March). How to infer actual privacy concern from online behavior. RSA Conference. San Francisco: Dell.
  • Jing, D., Zhu, Y., Brandimarte, L., & Chen, W. (2018, December). Be Gentle to the Newbies: Heterogeneous Impacts of Negative Feedback in Online Communities. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE). San Francisco, CA.
  • Jing, D., Zhu, Y., Brandimarte, L., & Chen, W. (2018, November). Be Gentle to the Newbies: Heterogeneous Impacts of Negative Feedback in Online Communities. INFORMS Annual Meeting. Phoenix, AZ.
  • Jing, D., Zhu, Y., Brandimarte, L., & Chen, W. (2018, October). Be Gentle to the Newbies: Heterogeneous Impacts of Negative Feedback in Online Communities. Conference on Digital Experiment (CODE). Boston, MA.
  • Bockstedt, J. C., Brandimarte, L., & Hashim, M. J. (2017, May). Social Engineering Experiments. Workshop on Experimental and Behavioral Economics in Information Systems. Atlanta, GA: Emory University.
  • Brandimarte, L., Chen, W., & Sidi, D. (2017, May). TD-CHAIN: A System to Enhance Transparency in Data Flows. Harvard Privacy and Transparency Workshop.
  • Brandimarte, L., McFowland, E., Somanchi, S., & Ananthakrishnan, U. (2017, December). Does Government Surveillance Give Twitter the Chills?. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics. Seoul, South Korea.
  • Brandimarte, L., McFowland, E., Somanchi, S., & Ananthakrishnan, U. (2017, October). Does Government Surveillance Give Twitter the Chills?. Conference on Information Systems and Technology. Houston, TX.
  • Sidi, D., Brandimarte, L., & Chen, W. (2017, September). TD-CHAIN: Using Blockchain to Enhance Transparency in Data Flows. U of A School of Information Colloquium. Tucson, AZ.
  • Brandimarte, L. (2016, October). How does Government surveillance affect perceived online privacy/security and online information disclosure?. Recent Developments at the Interface between Economics and Computer Science. Cambridge, UK: Isaac Newton Institute.
  • Brandimarte, L., & Acquisti, A. (2016, February). Privacy Trade-offs of Geo-location. Understanding and Enhancing Online Privacy (UEOP 2016). San Diego, CA: NDSS Symposium 2-16.
  • Brandimarte, L., Chiew, E., Ventura, S., & Acquisti, A. (2016, May). Attitudes towards geolocation-enabled Census forms. NSF Census Research Network. Suitland, MD.
  • Brandimarte, L., Chiew, E., Ventura, S., & Acquisti, A. (2016, May). Attitudes towards geolocation-enabled Census forms. Workshop on Experimental and Behavioral Economics in IS. Tucson, AZ.
  • Brandimarte, L., McFowland, E., Somanchi, S., & Ananthakrishnan, U. (2016, December). Does Government Surveillance Give Twitter the Chills?. Workshop on Information Security and Privacy (WISP 2016). Dublin, Ireland.
  • Brandimarte, L., McFowland, E., Somanchi, S., & Ananthakrishnan, U. (2016, September). Does Government Surveillance Give Twitter the Chills?. IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics. Tucson, AZ.
  • Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., & Hancock, J. (2015, June). Online Self-Disclosure and Offline Threat Detection. Workshop on the Economics of Information Systems (WEIS 2015).
  • Brandimarte, L. (2015, February). The limits of control and transparency. Meaningful Consent in the Digital Economy. Southampton, UK: University of Southampton.
  • Brandimarte, L. (2015, May). Privacy and Human Behavior: A Behavioral Economics Perspective to Privacy Decisions. Privacy and Freedom. Bielefeld - Germany: Bielefeld University.
  • Brandimarte, L., Acquisti, A., & Woodruff, A. (2015, June). Rational Privacy Trade-Offs versus Innate Preferences for Privacy. Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2015). Washington, DC.
  • Pe'er, E., Brandimarte, L., Samat, S., & Acquisti, A. (2015, June). Beyond the Turk: An empirical comparison of alternative platforms for crowdsourcing online research. Crowdsourcing and Online Behavioral Experiments (COBE 2015). Portland, OR.
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