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Privacy Regulation: Expensive and Ineffective

Posted By Jim Harper On May 22, 2009 @ 3:45 pm In Regulatory Studies,Telecom, Internet & Information Policy | Comments Disabled

Lee Gomes writes on Forbes.com with a clear-eyed reminder ^[1] that privacy regulation has been costly, yet failed to deliver. Lovers of government intervention will, of course, take this as an argument to double-down.

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[1] clear-eyed reminder: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0608/034-privacy-research-hidden-cost-of-privacy.html

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