reshaping the risk in consumer privacy and data security. In this essay, I first define the nature of the problem and then …

privacy improvements as well as helpful survey evidence. The literature also examines the consequences of the GDPR's design … well as privacy regulation and privacy-related innovation more broadly …

are costly to their privacy. The presence of these privacy costs means that platforms may need to provide guarantees about … privacy guarantees. We first introduce a novel mask-shuffle mechanism and prove it is Pareto optimal--meaning that it leaks … mask-shuffle mechanism, there exists a unique equilibrium in which privacy guarantees balance privacy costs and utility …

By regulating how firms collect, store, and use data, privacy laws may change the role of data in production and alter … firm demand for information technology inputs. We study how firms respond to privacy laws in the context of the EU …

respect the privacy of consumers. But nonrivalry leads to other consequences that are less obvious. Because of nonrivalry …, there may be large social gains to data being used broadly across firms, even in the presence of privacy considerations … their concerns for privacy against the economic gains that come from selling data to all interested parties …