Privacy And The Commercial Use Of Personal Information

Hon. Orrin G. Hatch United States Senate Electronic commerce will be pivotal to the United States economy in the 21 SI Century. With the advent ofelectronic commerce, some consumers have become concerned about the disclosure, transfer, and sale of information which businesses have collected about them. These concerns purportedly are slowing the rate ofexpansion ofelectronic commerce, thereby putting at risk the future growth of the New Economy. To reduce this risk, a variety of schemes have been proposed under which the government would regulate online privacy. Congress currently is in the midst ofa vigorous debate as to whether the government should regulate on-line privacy standards, and, ifso, what form such regulation should take. This succinct yet powerful book by Paul Rubin and Thomas Lenard goes to the heart of these issues. It explains that there is no evidence of actual consumer harm or market failure that could justify burdensome government regulation of online privacy. It describes the tremendous advantages consumers currently receive from the free flow of information collected on line, advantages which could be eliminated if the government unnecessarily regulates and stops this flow of information. It argues that the free market provides businesses with compelling incentives to adopt their own measures - such as seal programs and novel technologies - to assuage consumer privacy concerns. This book presents compelling evidence to support these and many other points central to the continuing debate in the halls of Congress and elsewhere concerningonline privacy.

This would be the only outcome possible if the regulations prohibit the use of information for purposes other than that for which it was originally collected, which sometimes is the case (and appears to be the case in the House bill). [...] As with other privacy measures, they do this not by prohibiting outright the sharing of the data or the use for specific purposes, but rather by requiring the company to obtain the consumer's explicit consent for the use of his or her data. [...] Benefits of Out-Sourcing: Economies of Scale A major source of the efficiencies associated with outside contracting is the potential for economies of scale in some activity, so that the optimal (i.e., cost- minimizing) level of the activity is larger than the amount of the output that is used by any one firm. [...] It is important to remember that shifting the locus of the activity from outside to inside does not necessarily change the scope of the activity, so the FCC's claim that it is "axiomatic that the more companies have access to CPNI, the greater the risk of unauthorized disclosure through disclosure by insiders or computer intrusion" is, in fact, not axiomatic. [...] If the internal subsidiaries of the two legacy companies tried to legally merge to eliminate the differences, they might find that the less-regulated subsidiaries would now be subject to the increased regulation associated with the more regulated divisions.

Cover -- Half Title -- Why Privacy Matters -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Privacy Conversation -- Part I -- 1. What Privacy Is -- 2. A Theory of Privacy as Rules -- 3. What Privacy Isn't -- Part II -- 4. Identity -- 5. Freedom -- 6. Protection -- Conclusion: Why Privacy Matters -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

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