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More than 40 years ago, Sen. William Proxmire (D-WI) guided the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) through Congress, seeking to improve the operations of the credit reporting industry. The complexities and tensions in a reputation system like credit reporting are formidable, however, and the FCRA...
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We discuss how the acquisition of private information by default without compensation by digital platforms such as Google and Facebook creates a market failure and can be grounds for antitrust enforcement. To avoid the market failure, the default in the collection of personal information has to...
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This article analyzes the interaction of EU competition, consumer and data protection law in the digital economy. We compare the objectives, rules and enforcement structures of these legal regimes, and we discuss market failures that justify regulatory intervention in digital markets. In...
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We compare the private and social incentives for privacy when sellers can commit to transparent privacy policies that are understood by consumers. The purpose is to establish a baseline for how well markets perform when firms' privacy policies are common knowledge. In this setting, if the market...
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Kingdom (UK), Australia, Canada and many other established democracies have moved the tectonic plate of the internet … internet users are adding momentum to the ongoing demand for restructuring internet governance worldwide. While the privacy and … basic data protection rights. States are taking measures stifling the freedom of internet sometimes due to misunderstandings …
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The Internet's Whois service allows anyone to type a domain name into a Web interface and then receive the name and …
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