Re:The study's methodology seems flawed to me (Score 1)

Read the fucking paper before commenting on the methodology. The name "Privacy Finder" was changed to "Shopping Finder." Participants were given no information about the nature of our research (our lab is in a nondescript room, in a building occupied by multiple departments), and were certainly not told this was a privacy study. Do you honestly believe that if all the results could be attributed to the Milgram effect this paper would have been accepted into any major peer-reviewed conferences?

Here, educate yourself: http://weis2007.econinfosec.org/papers/57.pdf