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…
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…
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…
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…
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;…
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:…
