Recent efforts to regulate the use of Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) attempt to address consumer concerns regarding privacy and possible fraudulent use of information. However, the FCC rulemaking issued earlier this year would do little to curtail illegal uses of CPNI. The FCC...

In this paper, we examine the costs and benefits of laws requiring businesses to notify consumers if their private data is compromised, such as the law in California and other state and federal laws recently passed or proposed. Identity theft and related frauds do not seem to be increasing in...

The current debate over privacy presents some of the most complex policy-making challenges we have seen in some time. While data on consumers have long been used for marketing purposes, the Internet has substantially increased the flow of personal information. This has produced great benefits,...