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Industry Funded Study Overstates Cost of Privacy

A recently released industry-funded study estimates that the cost of complying with privacy legislation will be in the billions. Professor Peter Swire and others have analyzed this study, and set forth arguments to refute its claims.

New Study Substantially Overstates Costs of Internet Privacy Protections, Peter Swire Web Page, May 9, 2001.
Responses to cost of privacy study from Swire, Smith, Sholtz, Declan McCullagh�s Politechbot.com, May 9, 2001.