Talk: Alessandro Acquisti

Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon University) will deliver a talk on "Who Benefits from the Data Economy". An abstract for the talk can be found below:

In the public debate around privacy and the data economy, several claims have been made concerning the benefits that multiple stakeholders may accrue from the collection and analysis of consumer data. How many of those claims are empirically validated by independent research? We will review prior work and present a series of ongoing studies that aim at understanding and estimating how the economic value extracted from consumer data is being allocated to different stakeholders, and the way privacy protection may influence those allocations.