Economic Aspects of Personal Privacy
Economic Aspects of Personal Privacy
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10.1007/b104899_7
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2009
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H. Varian
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作者：
H. Varian
操纵和传播信息的低成本技术的出现引起了人们对个人隐私的严重担忧。隐私是一个复杂的问题，可以从许多角度来看待；本章概述了与之相关的一些经济问题。我首先描述了隐私在经济交易中的作用，在这种情况下，消费者会理性地希望生产者能够获得关于自己的某些信息，而希望其他类型的信息保密。然后，我继续考虑如何定义私有信息方面的产权，使消费者能够保留对有关他们的信息如何被使用的控制权。
The advent of low-cost technology for manipulating and communicating information has raised significant concerns about personal privacy. Privacy is a complex issue that can be treated from many perspectives; this chapter provides an overview of some of theeconomicissues surrounding it.I first describe the role of privacy in economic transactions, in which consumers will rationallywantcertain kinds of information about themselves to be available to producers and will want other kinds of information to be secret. Then, I go on to consider how one might define property rights with respect to private information in ways that allow consumers to retain control over how information about them is used.