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Scholars and legal practitioners have found profound differences between the privacy practices of Europe and the United States. This has produced incompatible regimes of regulation, causing serious normative and political issues. This conflict - originally centered on the exchange of commercial...

Privacy has been recognized as an important topic in the Internet for a long time, and technological developments in the area of privacy tools are ongoing. However, their focus was mainly on the individual. With the proliferation of social network sites, it has become more evident that the...

Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit speziellen Aspekten der stochastischen Überlagerung, die als Anonymisierungsmethode zur Sicherstellung der faktischen Anonymität von Mikrodaten eingesetzt wird.2 Insbesondere soll der Zusammenhang zwischen der Überlagerung mittels einer Mischungsverteilung...

Die Anonymisierung von sensiblen Individualdaten führt zu einem Konflikt zwischen dem Ziel der Minimierung des Reidentifikationsrisikos und der Qualität ökonometrischer Schätzungen. Der durch Anonymisierung bedingte Verlust an Effizienz und/oder der Konsistenz eines Schätzers wirft die...

There is much debate on how the flow of information between firms should be organized, and whether existing privacy laws should be amended. We offer a welfare comparison of the three main current policies towards consumer privacy anonymity, opt in, and opt out within a two-period model of...

This paper considers moral hazard insurance markets when voluntary monitoring technologies are available and insureds may choose the precision of monitoring. Also privacy costs incurred thereby are taken into account. Two alternative contract schemes are compared in terms of welfare: (i)...

For micro-datasets considered for release as scientific or public use files, statistical agencies have to face the dilemma of guaranteeing the confidentiality of survey respondents on the one hand and offering sufficiently detailed data on the other hand. For that reason a variety of methods to...