databases (KDD), collecting biomarkers, employing biometrics, using RFID technology - even as implants in the human body - and … subjects research. But at the same time these new means of gathering information may pose powerful threats to privacy, autonomy … information gathering and the challenges they present to moral concepts like -privacy, autonomy, informed consent, beneficence …

This research report offers a comparative analysis of privacy and data protection in Germany and India. It compares the … two regimes on four counts. First, it examines how the right to privacy and/or its allied rights have developed in the two … principles of privacy in the decades after the Second World War. Second, it delves into the instruments and forms of state …

loss of privacy, the paper analyzes the incentives of insureds to reveal information, whereby they can decide how much or …

insureds may choose the precision of monitoring. Also privacy costs incurred thereby are taken into account. Two alternative … data. With any contract scheme some monitor- ing will be optimal unless the privacy costs increase too fast in relation to … signals (monitoring and the outcome) informative of effort (ii) maximizes welfare. In the presence of privacy costs, the …

We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants were given the choice to buy a maximum of …

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. …

brings up new questions related to the task of pricing. We investigate the eect of a reduction of privacy on consumers …

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 …