Privacy self-management and the issue of privacy externalities: of thwarted expectations, and harmful exploitation

This article argues that the self-management of one’s privacy is impossible due to privacy externalities. Privacy externalities are the negative by-product of the services offered by some data controllers, whereby the price to ‘pay’ for a service includes not just the provision of the user’s own per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simeon de Brouwer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society 2020-12-01
Series:Internet Policy Review
Online Access:https://policyreview.info/node/1537