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When a policymaker is better informed than the public, public beliefs about the hidden informationemerge as additional state variables, managed by the policymaker. General methodsare presented to compute optimal commitment and discretion policies.Under commitment, policy is additive in two...
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Many controversies that beset the digital economy turn on the role of advertising and its use of personal data. We examine the trade-off between privacy and ad targeting accuracy from the advertisers' perspective. By exploiting Apple's gradual restriction, and ultimately the abolition of ad...
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Recent advances in biology and genetics have raised the value of life samples, health records and genetically modified micro-organisms, and, as Demsetz (1967) predicts, rising values increase the demand for well-defined exclusive ownership rights. But greater expected value of resources also...
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As the digital economy is growing in Indonesia at an exponential rate, there is a need to come up with a novel approach to regulating the activities and transactions happening in this space. This is especially true in the sphere of personal data protection, where massive amounts of personal data...
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Strategies to monetize personal data have created opportunities for business innovation, including companies for credit ranking, marketing strategies, public health surveillance, and even penalty and reward mechanisms. Innovative credit scoring (ICS), which uses non-traditional personal data to...
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The EU Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is proposing a far-reaching "European Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services" (EUCS) to be established in the European Union (EU). According to the latest draft of August 2023, leaked by Politico in September 2023, the...
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Canada has much to gain by joining the Council of Europe's Modernized Convention on Personal Data Protection (Convention 108+), based on its predecessor, the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data. The latter remains the only binding...
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This paper examines how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can be used to address procedural problems faced by platform workers, including opaque rating systems, arbitrary account suspension and nonpayment, and uncommunicative clients and platform operators. GDPR provides workers with...
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Basierend auf einem Onlineexperiment mit 206 Teilnehmern untersucht die Dissertation, wie Konsumenten im Internet nach Informationen zu hochwertigen Produkten suchen und welche Rolle dabei virtuelle Verkaufsberater (elektronische Agenten) spielen. Im Kontext eines online Kamerakaufes mit Hilfe...
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