Date: 31/01/2023
Janaki Srinivasan, T.K. Srikanth and V.Sridhar, along with Neelanjana Sharma, Amol Kulkarni and Prince Gupta (from Consumer Unity & Trust Society, Jaipur) are the recipients of a research grant from the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), University of California, Berkeley.
The project titled “My data or yours?” Unraveling Privacy Among Consumers of Digital Credit in India 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.