Is data privacy a fundamental right?

This piece is part of the StatBusters column written jointly with Andrew Gelman. Hope they fix the labeling soon. In it, we talk about two recent studies on data privacy, which leads to contradictory conclusions. How should the media report such surveys? Is the brand name of the organization enough? In addition, we debunk the notion that consumers will definitely get something valuable out of sharing their data.

 

Comments

[Dean Eckles]

It is a little confusing how some of it is in first person (but has two authors).

[Kaiser]

Dean: Thanks for the comment. You're not the only one who noticed this. We have some teething problems (too complicated to explain here) which we hope to fix from the next column.