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Privacy and Security

Information technology lets people learn about one another on a scale previously unimaginable. Information in the wrong hands can be harmful. Scholars on this site consider problems of privacy, fraud, identity, and security posed by the digital age.

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Incentive conflicts prevent some companies from providing effective notices to consumers. Here is an example of an effective consumer notice.
A collection of articles exploring online privacy issues from the user and provider perspectives.
How information technology changes privacy in many ways. By Joseph Lorenzo Hall,Postdoctoral Research Associate at Berkeley School of Information.
The Federal Trade Commission hosted a series of public roundtable discussions to explore the privacy challenges posted by the vast array of 21st century technology and business practices that collect and use consumer data.
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Privacy and Consumers

There are a number of privacy issues related to how online companies collect, store, use and share personally identifiable information; and how consumers are informed about what is done with their information online.

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Intimate Privacy: The Fight for Cyber Civil Rights

“There are three central actors that worry me and that implicate our intimate privacy. That’s the corporate surveillance of intimate life. It's individuals surveilling and exploiting intimate privacy. And it's governments invading intimate privacy.” — Danielle Citron, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

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Virginia Public Media: News Focal Point
March 2, 2023

Featured Article

Scale Effects in Web Search

This study considers how learning affects competition between search engines. As learning proceeds, it tends to slow down. Could a new search engine with a better algorithm overcome a large search engine with more data?

By: R. Preston McAfee, Aadharsh Kannan, Di He, Justin Rao, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu