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Behavioral Economics and Privacy Rights

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>		I’ll admit this was not a very useful or well developed inquiry and look forward to improving in a new draft, but in response to your comments for now:
 
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>		Perhaps insight from prospect theory does not change the fact social networking without a man in the middle is a good idea, but it may help us predict the way in which we can implement or “market” this new social network so that it can displace Facebook. The idea is not only, as you put it, “people allow their privacy to be invaded because there aren’t cheap, convenient ways to do what they want without giving up privacy,” it’s also “people allow their privacy to be invaded and they obviously shouldn’t even if there are not cheap, convenient alternatives. So when there are alternatives, how do we know people won’t continue to allow their privacy to be invaded?” Understanding why people act the way they do might help us present solutions like Freedombox framed in a way that will lead people away from continuing to make harmful decisions. The theory resonates with what you’ve said in class, that the shift to services like Freedombox will come first from a country in which people face much greater probabilities of severe harm (and therefore are able to internalize these harms), but the mechanism by which the first world will adopt these solutions still remains unclear to me. People will need to choose to adopt the alternatives that anarchism provides, and it’s not clear rationality will prevail. There might be something in a more nuanced and smarter application of behavioral economics than mine which gives us insight into how we can help people best frame this choice.
 
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>		-- MeharJagota - 01 May 2012
 
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