题名

Not Always a Blunt Tool-Legislation in the Context of Privacy

DOI

10.29614/DRMM.200801.0008

作者

Ash Bashir；Justin Zhan

关键词
期刊名称

資訊安全通訊

卷期/出版年月

14卷1期（2008 / 01 / 01）

页次

130 - 138

内容语文

英文
英文摘要

Privacy is currently a critical topic in the media, and a number of major privacy breaches have come to light. This has meant that consumer awareness of privacy has increased over the past few years. However, privacy breaches continue to occur and the associated costs are often not incurred by those responsible. In this paper, we discuss the connection between privacy, identity theft and externalities. In particular, we look at two examples of market solutions to address such privacy externalities. With the example of the California Security Breach Information Act, SB1386 we argue that market failures in the guise of privacy externalities can be addressed with economically rational legislation. We demonstrate this with two examples and show how the law has resulted in these firms internalising the cost of customer privacy breaches.
主题分类 基礎與應用科學 > 資訊科學
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