Economic Barriers to the Deployment of Existing Privacy Technologies

formation.Despite the fact that many of the impressive techniques in the cryptographic researchliterature have been extensively and rigorously analyzed, and some have even been commerciallydeveloped, few are in widespread use. It is our thesis that there are straightforwardeconomic and business reasons for this apparent contradiction.The major constituencies involved in a privacy-enabling protocol or system must bewilling to sacrifice the information that could be collected about the...