The development of Internet technologies and personalized advertising has amplified public concern about privacy, but there is little empirical analysis of how firms exploit personal data. This article investigates how website performance, measured by web audience, is affected by intrusions into...

While artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are seen as a convincing new opportunity to reduce human bias, automated decision-making can also have unintended and unexpected results, especially in the context of online platforms. In the case of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...

We investigate how a monopoly network should price advertising campaignsfor commercial firms. We assume that the network is better able to identifythe right target audience but that this requires it to learn the firm’s audiencetype. Differences in firms’ private information such as the value...