privacy | Data Economics

‘;–have i been pwned?

2016-06-14 / 0 comments

If you want to find out if you have been pwned, check out this site: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ Just type in your mail address. You will see your results immediatelly. Below are the results concerning one of my email addresses.

NAI – Network Advertising Initiative

2015-09-05 / 0 comments

NAI is a non-profit organization that is the leading self-regulatory association dedicated to responsible data collection and its use for digital advertising. Since 2000, we have been working with the leaders in online advertising to craft policies that help ensure responsible data collection and use practices. The result is the development of high standards that…

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Automated Experiments on Ad Privacy Settings

2015-08-07 / 0 comments

To partly address people’s concerns over web tracking, Google has created the Ad Settings webpage to provide information about and some choice over the profiles Google creates on users. We present AdFisher, an automated tool that explores how user behaviors, Google’s ads, and Ad Settings interact. AdFisher can run browser-based experiments and analyze data using…

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The Economics of Personal Data and Privacy: 30 Years after the OECD Privacy Guidelines

2015-07-20 / 0 comments

Conference held at the OECD Conference center, Paris, France, 1 December 2010 The use of data, including personal data, is growing at a terrific rate. Global flows of data are increasing, as is the capacity of organisations to analyse and put data to productive use. One common example is online advertising, which leverages personal data…

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Book: Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy

2015-07-12 / 0 comments

Edited by Avi Goldfarb, Shane M. Greenstein, and Catherine E. Tucker 528 pages | 18 halftones, 106 line drawings, 53 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2015 National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has become increasingly digital. But while the…

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