2022-2024
PIs: Janaki Srinivasan (IIITB), T.K. Srikanth (IIITB), V.Sridhar (IIITB) along with Neelanjana Sharma, Amol Kulkarni and Prince Gupta (from Consumer Unity & Trust Society, Jaipur)
Funding agency: Centre for Effective Global Action (CEGA), University of California, Berkeley.
Description: This project will be a mixed methods study conducted at IIITB with support from partners at Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS). The study will have four parts: an initial controlled observational analysis, a large-scale survey supplemented by in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and finally a contextual observational analysis. Focusing on a diverse group of Digital Financial Services (DFS) consumers in India, researchers will learn about the Attitudes, Concerns and Perspectives (ACP) of consumers towards their data and privacy, how different consumer subgroups evaluate trade-offs between access and privacy, and how they navigate privacy boundaries with their lenders and associated third parties.