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[…] Consu mer Privacy Surveys Don’t Tell Us (June 2001) (unpublished manuscript), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers. cfm?abstract_id=299930 (“[P]rivacy surveys in particular . . . suffer from the ‘talk is cheap’ problem. It costs a consumer nothing to express a desire for federal law to protect privacy. But if such law became a 2013 ] BENEFIT -COST […]

[…] the one hand, it produced great fortunes and technological innovation that made what had been impossible commonplace. These new innovations included factories, steam engines, railroads, cars, airplanes, cheap textiles, and shaped the modern world into a form that we (or at least our parents) could recognize. But on the other hand, the industrial revolution […]

[…] rare.$ ECPA$accordingly$ treated$ real`time$ wiretapping$ as$ the$ chief$ privacy$ threat.$Access$ to$ stored$ communications$was$ treated$as$ a$ lesser$ concern.$ $ The$opposite$ is$ true$ today.$ $ Storage$ has$ become$ remarkably$ cheap$ and$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Electronic$ Communications$ Privacy$ Act$ (ECPA)$ to$ reflect$ our$ current$ digital$economy”).$$A$ video$ recording$ of$ the$first$ hearing,$ held$on$ March$ 19,$ 2013$and$ titled$”ECPA$ Part$ 1:$ Lawless$ Access$ to$ Stored$ […]

[…] people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives. To count as a nudge, the intervention must be easy and cheap to avoid. Nudges are not mandates.” Id. 07 – Hartzog Article.docx (Do Not Delete) 6/17/2013 1:55 PM 412 W ASHINGTON LAW REVIEW [Vol. 88:385 These behavioral […]

[…] to the revolution caused by the Ford Model T, Johns Hopkins’ Sean Fahey declared that Big Data was important because it had “democratized” data. Today, thanks to cheap storage, excess computational power, and open source initiatives, enterprises of any scale can work with large amounts of data, eliminating the specialized equipment and significant capital […]

[…] average costs when the personal information they rely on for revenue is generated or, more specifically, digitized by the consumer . Information is costly to produce and cheap to reproduce. Microsoft, for example, spends a great deal to produce new versions of its Office Suite, which includes the popular programs Word and Excel. The […]

[…]   A.  Self Verification  a.  The site asks the user in a neutral way what his  or her birth date is, and if the user is  underage, a session cookie is placed in their brows er preventing access for the duration  of their web browsing session.  i.  Self-verification of this sort is the standard i n the USA, where the Children’s  Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) requires all  web sites which collect   personally identifiable information (PII) of childr en to obtain verifiable parental  consent. Sites that are not aimed at children that  collect personal information  may rely on the neutral age screen to ensure that u sers are adults. And, as noted  in the DG Infosoc report 1, self-verification is the technique favored by man y adult  web sites and social networking sites in Europe.  ii.  Advantages :  Cheap and easy to implement.   iii.  Concerns : Easy for people to lie.   1 See Information Society & Media Directorate-General (DG Infosoc): Background Report on Cross Media Rat ing and Classification, and Age Verification Solutions, p.18 […]

[…]   A.  Self Verification  a.  The site asks the user in a neutral way what his  or her birth date is, and if the user is  underage, a session cookie is placed in their brows er preventing access for the duration  of their web browsing session.  i.  Self-verification of this sort is the standard i n the USA, where the Children’s  Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) requires all  web sites which collect   personally identifiable information (PII) of childr en to obtain verifiable parental  consent. Sites that are not aimed at children that  collect personal information  may rely on the neutral age screen to ensure that u sers are adults. And, as noted  in the DG Infosoc report 1, self-verification is the technique favored by man y adult  web sites and social networking sites in Europe.  ii.  Advantages :  Cheap and easy to implement.   iii.  Concerns : Easy for people to lie.   1 See Information Society & Media Directorate-General (DG Infosoc): Background Report on Cross Media Rat ing and Classification, and Age Verification Solutions, p.18 […]

[…] online. The understanding will breed trust, and the trust will breed a more viable advertising solution. We agree with Jeff Hirsch, CEO of AudienceScience. But talk is cheap. Will industry really seek to deliver on user trust? We hope so but we also think that many aren’t yet engaged in the hard work needed […]