Economic Aspects of Personal Privacy

By Hal R. Varian. 2009

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Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Nudges for Privacy and Security (2017, background): “Nudges for Privacy and Security: Understanding and Assisting Users’ Choices Online 44:5 For example, when subscribing to a mailing list, most times we cannot know whether the mailing list might be sold to a third party that could send us unsolicited messages [Varian 1996].”
Secrets and Likes: The Drive for Privacy and the Difficulty of Achieving It in the Digital Age (2020, background): “It would be entirely logical (and welfare-increasing: Varian, 1996) for a consumer to share his/her product interests with marketers (to receive potentially beneficial targeted offers), and to hide the reservation price for those products (to avoid price discrimination).”
What Can Behavioral Economics Teach Us about Privacy (2008, background): “For example, Varian noted that an individual has little or no control on the secondary use of her personal information, and hence may be subject to externalities whenever other parties transact her personal data [9].”
Over-exposed?: privacy patterns and considerations in online and mobile photo sharing (2007, methodology): “Even the meaning of the term “privacy” varies considerably between people and contexts [ 27 ], and people’s stated preferences often don’t match their actions [23].”
Engineering Privacy (2009, background): “Varian [65] argues that “a transaction is made more efficient if detailed information about the consumer’s tastes is available to the seller” and thus posits that it is rational for people to reveal personal data in sales contexts.”
Game theory meets network security and privacy (2013, background): “Interested readers can find more information about the economics of privacy in [Acquisti 2004; Odlyzko 2003; Varian 2009; Hui and Png 2006].”
Privacy Protection and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Medical Records (2009, unknown): “All errors are our own.”
Too Much Data: Prices and Inefficiencies in Data Markets (2019, unknown): “It is often claimed that because data enables a better allocation of resources and more or higher quality innovation, the market mechanism generates too little data sharing (e.g., Varian [2009], Jones et al. [2018], Farboodi et al. [2019], and Veldkamp and Chung [2019]).”
Estimation of Treatment Effects from Combined Data: Identification versus Data Security (2015, unknown): “As seen in Varian (2009), this approach allowed the researchers to analyze the release of private data in the context of the trade-off between the network effects created by the data release and the utility loss associated with this release.”
The Economics of Personal Data and the Economics of Privacy (2010, background): “Along similar lines, Varian (1996) observes that consumers may suffer privacy costs when too little personal information about them is being shared with third parties, rather than too much.”