The “familiar” privacy remedies that would limit the re-use and sharing of data, are inconsistent with the ways in which data are being used. Moreover, there is no evidence that…
Research Papers
Emporiophobia (Fear of Markets): Cooperation or Competition?
Paul H. Rubin
Presidential Address, Southern Economic Association, Tampa, FL Economists have committed a fundamental semantic error by focusing on the term competition and ignoring the cooperative nature of markets. By correctly emphasizing…
Commentaries and Op-Eds
The FTC and Privacy: We Don’t Need No Stinking Data
Thomas M. Lenard and Paul H. Rubin
Attachments The FTC and Privacy: We Don’t Need No Stinking Data
New Technology in Europe
Paul H. Rubin
Last week the New York Times ran an article, “Building the Next Facebook a Tough Task in Europe“, by Eric Pfanner, discussing the lack of major high tech innovation in…
Privacy in Europe
Paul H. Rubin
The EU is apparently thinking of adopting common and highly restrictive privacy standards which would make use of information by firms much more difficult and would require, for example, that…
Carrier IQ: Another Silly Privacy Panic
Paul H. Rubin
By now everyone is probably aware of the “tracking” of certain cellphones (Sprint, iPhone, T-Mobile, AT&T perhaps others) by a company called Carrier IQ. There are lots of discussions available;…
Privacy Again
Paul H. Rubin
The Wall Street Journal had a long article-debate on privacy earlier this week. The strongest pro-privacy is Christopher Soghoian of the Open Society Institute. He confuses commercial privacy with government privacy:…
Commentaries and Op-Eds
The Federal Trade Commission Penalizes Google For Being Successful
Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard
Research Papers
Applications Want to be Free: Privacy Against Information
Paul H. Rubin
Applications Want to be Free: Privacy Against Information
Commentaries and Op-Eds
Ten Fallacies About Web Privacy
Paul H. Rubin
We are not used to the Internet reality that something can be known and at the same time no person knows it.
