We study a model of financial intermediation, payment choice, and privacy in the digital economy. Cash preserves anonymity but cannot be used for more efficient online transactions. By contrast, bank deposits can be used online but do not preserve anonymity. Banks use the information contained...

Chapter 1. Introduction to Human Privacy in Virtual and Physical Worlds -- Foundations of human privacy:. Chapter 2. Exploring Privacy from a Philosophical Perspective: Conceptual and Normative Dimensions -- Chapter 3. What’s so special about private parts? How anthropology questions the...

Privacy and security tools can help users protect themselves online. Unfortunately, people are often unaware of such tools, and have potentially harmful misconceptions about the protections provided by the tools they know about. Effectively encouraging the adoption of privacy tools requires...