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. 2021 Jul 7;9:705777. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.705777

Table 1.

Notations for the model.

Notations Descriptions
B1 The fixed profits obtained by consumers when they choose not to share personal information when online shopping
B2 The fixed profits obtained by consumers when they choose to share personal information when online shopping
N1 Maximum extra benefits generated for consumers by the data mining behavior of e-commerce platforms
α The positive utility coefficient of data mining for consumers
N2 Maximum extra losses generated for consumers by the data mining behavior of e-commerce platforms.
β The negative utility coefficient of data mining for consumers
Y Rewards obtained by consumers from e-commerce platforms for sharing personal information
F The fixed benefits obtained by e-commerce platforms when providing services to consumers.
M1 The maximum extra benefits that e-commerce platforms can obtain through data mining when consumers choose to share personal information.
M2 The maximum extra benefits obtained by e-commerce platforms through illegal data mining when consumers choose not to share personal information.
μ The ability of e-commerce platforms to use AI technologies, which directly influences the effects of data mining.
δ The possibility that illegal data mining behavior by e-commerce platforms is detected when consumers choose not to share personal information.
f The penalty for illegal data mining by e-commerce platforms.
t The trust coefficient of consumers for e-commerce platforms under the supervision of third-party regulators
C1 The reward cost of e-commerce platforms when consumers choose to share personal information
C2 The technical cost of data mining for e-commerce platforms
p Probability of consumers choosing to share personal information
q Probability of e-commerce platforms choosing data mining