Editing Privacy (section)

===User empowerment===
{{further|End user}}
{{see also|#Privacy paradox and economic valuation}}

Concrete solutions on how to solve paradoxical behavior still do not exist. Many efforts are focused on processes of decision making, like restricting data access permissions during application installation, but this would not completely bridge the gap between user intention and behavior. Susanne Barth and Menno D.T. de Jong believe that for users to make more conscious decisions on privacy matters, the design needs to be more user-oriented.<ref name="Barth 1038–1058"/> That being said, delivering on privacy protections is difficult due to the complexity of online consent processes, for example.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Obar |first1=J. A. |last2=Oeldorf-Hirsch |first2=A. |title=Older Adults and 'The Biggest Lie on the Internet': From Ignoring Social Media Policies to the Privacy Paradox |journal=International Journal of Communication |date=2022 |volume=16 |pages=4779–4800 |ssrn=4250424 |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4250424 |access-date=4 March 2025}}</ref>