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This paper constructs a tripartite evolutionary game model among platform-based enterprises, users, and regulators by combining theories of daily activities. This paper explores the equilibrium strategy for the leakage of users\u2019 privacy information on online platforms under the concept of multiparty governance and designs four simulation experiments based on the revenue intervals of platform-based enterprises\u2019 decisions. Finally, the model is validated by means of simulation. The results show that when platform-based enterprises make less profit from compromising users\u2019 privacy, users are motivated to participate in shared governance with minimal incentives from the regulator. Regulators can effectively deter privacy leakage by fining platform-based enterprises for leaking user privacy information and requiring them to compensate users for their losses. At this point, they can achieve effective control over privacy leakage by using traditional regulation. When platform-based enterprises make high profits from leaking users\u2019 privacy, they will adhere to their privacy leaking strategy. At this point, privacy security is at its most serious, and users\u2019 privacy rights are not effectively protected. Users and regulators will tend to cooperate to form a multiparty regulatory system, but this does not influence the strategy choice of platform-based enterprises.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info16030193","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,3]],"date-time":"2025-03-03T03:22:44Z","timestamp":1740972164000},"page":"193","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Exploring Privacy Leakage in Platform-Based Enterprises: A Tripartite Evolutionary Game Analysis and Multilateral Co-Regulation Framework"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Peng","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Humanities, Jiaozuo University, Jiaozuo 454000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-1261-1904","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiaxin","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhuo","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"China Internet Network Information Center (2025, January 17). 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