Study: Business Studies of Privacy are Biased and Incomplete
A new report released by Robert Gellman, a privacy and information policy consultant, analyzes the costs to individuals that result from a lack of privacy protection. Gellman also critiques recent business studies that emphasize regulatory costs of privacy legislation without addressing how self-regulatory approaches to privacy shift costs to consumers and to society. Gellman argues that "the costs incurred by both business and individuals due to incomplete or insufficient privacy protections reach tens of billions of dollars every year."Also, the updated EPIC Public Opinion and Privacy Page shows strong support among Americans for opt-in privacy protections, and a rejection of the current self-regulatory model for privacy protections in law.
Privacy, Consumers, and Costs: How The Lack of Privacy Costs Consumers and Why Business Studies of Privacy Costs are Biased and Incomplete (PDF Version), Robert Gellman, March 2002.
EPIC Public Opinion and Privacy Page.
