privacy, which results in the highest profit for the monopolist. In fact, all consumers are better off when opting out is … when opting out is prohibitively costly. We introduce the notion of a privacy gatekeeper --- a third party that is able to … act as a privacy conduit and set the cost of opting out. We prove that the privacy gatekeeper only charges the firm in …

losers from potential privacy regulation in the context of four commonly-used oligopoly models: a linear city model, a … winners and losers as a result of privacy enforcement, the parties who stand to benefit and the parties who stand to lose, as …