their customers both easily and cheaply. This means that privacy concerns are no longer limited to government surveillance … and public figures' private lives. The empirical literature on privacy regulation shows that privacy regulation may affect … the extent and direction of data-based innovation. We also show that the impact of privacy regulation can be extremely …

privacy? We retell a few stories, well-known in data-privacy circles, of failed anonymization attempts in publicly released … datasets. We then provide a mostly informal introduction to several ideas from the literature on differential privacy, an … active literature in computer science that studies formal approaches to preserving the privacy of individuals in statistical …

'Notice and Choice' has been a mainstay of policies designed to safeguard consumer privacy. This paper investigates … privacy using field experiment data from the MIT digital currency experiment. There are three findings. First, the effect … small incentives have on disclosure may explain the privacy paradox: Whereas people say they care about privacy, they are …

evidence on the sources of these information frictions. Social scientists have long conjectured that privacy norms around …

information aggregation. We derive the optimal degree of privacy/publicity and matching rate, then analyze how they depend on the … in the fundamental or the image-motivated component of average preferences), privacy should generally be greater than in …

other technologies, three policy categories - privacy, trade, and liability - may be uniquely salient in their influence on …

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