Presentation: Revisiting the Economics of Privacy: Population Statistics and Privacy as Public Goods

Abowd, John. Presentation: Revisiting the Economics of Privacy: Population Statistics and Privacy as Public Goods. Cornell University Preprint 1813:30937, 2012, available at http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30937.
Presentation: Revisiting the Economics of Privacy: Population Statistics and Privacy as Public Goods Abowd, John Anonymization and data quality are intimately linked. Although this link has been properly acknowledged in the Computer Science and Statistical Disclosure Limitation literatures, economics offers a framework for formalizing the linkage and analyzing optimal decisions and equilibrium outcomes. The opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the author and neither the National Science Foundation nor the Census Bureau.