privacy concerns that could create a regulatory backlash, restraining the data economy and stifling innovation. In fact, the … principles of privacy and data protection must be balanced against additional societal values, such as economic efficiency … uses of data and individual privacy, governments should address an appropriate structure of privacy law, including …

This paper shows that privacy concerns in commercial contexts are not solely driven by a desire to control the … transmission of personal information or to avoid intrusive direct marketing campaigns. When they express privacy concerns … consequences of information transmission. We suggest that there is a homo economicus behind privacy concerns, not simply a primal …

result suggests that privacy mechanisms affect partner selection and the consequent structure of the network: when … privacy costs of revealing personal information are compensated by more productive links. …