Privacy, third parties and judicial method: Wainwright's legacy of uncertainty

Contracting with Third Parties

odels of bilateral contracting, such as the canonical holdup model, typically assume that third parties are not available. Given this assumption, the equilibrium outcome is not first-best efficient if contracts can be renegotiated. To be more specific, suppose an architect and a builder must cooperate to build a building. The quality of the building will depend on three things: the quality of t...

Towards Tiny Trusted Third Parties

Many security protocols hypothesize the existence of a trusted third party (TTP) to ease handling of computation and data too sensitive for the other parties involved. Subsequent discussion usually dismisses these protocols as hypothetical or impractical, under the assumption that trusted third parties cannot exist. However, the last decade has seen the emergence of hardware-based devices that,...

How Much to Share with Third Parties? Users’ Privacy Concerns and Website’s Dilemma

Websites are increasingly presenting content and services that are not created and managed by the publisher’s website administrators themselves, but are provided by other third-parties. While third-party content and services provide value and utility to the site visitors, this comes at the cost of visitor information being shared with the third-parties. Thus, information is shared not just with...

How Much to Share with Third Parties? User Privacy Concerns and Website Dilemmas

HOW MUCH TO SHARE WITH THIRD PARTIES? USER PRIVACY CONCERNS AND WEBSITE DILEMMAS Ram D. Gopal Operations and Information Management, School of Business, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 U.S.A. {[email protected]} Hooman Hidaji and Raymond A. Patterson Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, CANADA T2N 1N4 {[email protected]} {raymo...

Exploitable Results by Third Parties