On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes <[email protected]> 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 > <[email protected]> > +1 (817) 271-9619 Cheers, Alfonso > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Alfonso De Gregorio <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:24 PM, ale fernandez <[email protected]> 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 >> -- >> Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by >> emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
