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The movement of personal data across national borders is fundamental to the Internet economy. Yet the laws that govern …
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The emergence of Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) business models as a successful alternative to conventional uniform pricing brings up new questions related to the task of pricing. We investigate the effect of a reduction of privacy on consumers' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much...
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; Internet ; Privacy ; Natural experiment …
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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 paper investigates how privacy regulation affects the structure of online markets. We provide a simple theoretical model capturing the basic trade-off between the degree of privacy intrusion and the informativeness of advertising. We derive empirically testable hypotheses regarding a...
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Modern websites rely on personal data to analyze traffic on their websites and market them- selves. We study the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which requires that sites seek user consent to process personal data like cookie identifiers and email ad- dresses. We...
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Over the last decade, there have been vast improvements in surveillance technology and the availability, storage, and mining of personal information online, supported by developments in big data analytics. This has created a public policy conundrum over balancing the benefits of big data with...
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proceeding on “the consumer privacy and security issues" associated with the “Internet of Things.” The filing argues that the … Internet of Things -- like the Internet itself -- should not be subjected to a precautionary principle, which would impose …. Preemptive restrictions on the development of the Internet of Things could retard technological innovation and limit the benefits …
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