Testimony on Third Party Financing of Lawsuits

On Accuracy of Third Party Audits

Third party audits of product quality — such as consumer product reviews, financial audits, and court decisions — are common. Prior economic analysis finds that more accurate assessments improve welfare, either by facilitating better consumer choices or encouraging producers to improve quality. This paper shows that, when auditors have binding capacity constraints, information available to cons...

Solar PV Project Financing: Regulatory and Legislative Challenges for Third-Party PPA System Owners (Revised)

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Party Pooper: Third-Party Libraries in Android

Third-party libraries (3PLs), such as advertising networks, gaming networks, and analytics engines, are an integral part of modern mobile platforms. If Android developers want to integrate functionality provided by 3PLs, they must bundle opaque binary code into their applications. Unfortunately, developers must in essence overprivilege their Android applications by requesting dangerous permissi...

Ensuring Media Integrity on Third-Party Infrastructures

In many heterogeneous networked applications the integrity of multimedia data plays an essential role, but is not directly supported by the application. In this paper, we propose a method which enables an individual user to detect tampering with a multimedia file without changing the software application provided by the third party. Our method is based on a combination of cryptographic signatur...

Third-Party Decision