Two links that may be of interest to this discussion.
First, a recent report from the OECD: "Exploring the Economics of
Personal Data", March 2013. This report looks at the different
methodologies for measuring the monetary value of personal data:
<http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/science-and-technology/exploring-the-economics-of-personal-data_5k486qtxldmq-en>
Second, everyone here is probably familiar with Hasan Elahi, who decided
to make his life very public after being signaled out by the FBI post
9-11. His TED talk from 2011 (some interesting thoughts at around 11
minutes):
http://www.ted.com/talks/hasan_elahi.html
Best regards,
Catherine
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On 15/06/2013 1:32 PM, Alfonso De Gregorio wrote:
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
<alps6...@gmail.com> wrote:
I truly believe "Internet Privacy" is an oxymoron. Therefore, any and
all attempts to "protect it" are doomed from the start. It's just like
"copyright" in the movie industry. Why not reverse the argument and
make "privacy" irrelevant, with zero economic value? Since the wheels
of industry are financial, industry will fail to profit from it.
Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato,
There is a market value for personal information (i.e., demand side)
and there is a value of privacy to the individual the information
belongs to (i.e., supply side).
As long as privacy will be worth something to people -- for reasons
that goes beyond the realms of economic reasoning -- its value will
be (inevitably) non-zero.
Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes
<a...@acm.org>
+1 (817) 271-9619
Cheers,
Alfonso
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Alfonso De Gregorio <a...@crypto.lo.gy> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:24 PM, ale fernandez <sko...@gmail.com> wrote:
With all this talk of how snooping agencies and companies are trading people's
data, wouldn't a citizen aggregated and voluntary free / creative commons
database or similar be of value - perhaps at least as a way of reducing the
value of all these data mining companies?
Ale
Such self-exposure may sounds kind of personal-data pornography -- and
somebody might argue that it wouldn't be so different than disclosing
our life to a random peer on a social media site.
More seriously, if we believe there is value in privacy, we shouldn't
erode our own privacy as modern privacy-kamikaze just to destroy
personal information market value. Let's play to win!
Of course, a large number of individuals, who genuinely would like to
protect their privacy, will not do so because of cognitive biases well
documented in behavioral economics and decision research [1].
Cheers,
Alfonso
[1] Acquisti A., John L., Loewenstein G., "What is privacy worth?",
Future of Privacy Forum,
http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/papers/acquisti-ISR-worth.pdf
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