, policymakers have allowed enhanced self-regulation to exist in the shadow of European and national hierarchies. The paper process …. The paper thereafter draws conclusions about how regulators can impact self-regulation that exists in their shadow through … regulating via intermediaries instead of using direct modes of regulation. …

I investigate alternative explanations for the content of privacy policies. Under one model of self-regulation, firms …

A good deal of recent attention has focused on the potential for "self-regulation" on the Internet and more generally …. This article proposes a general framework for deciding among markets, self-regulation and government enforcement in the … protection of personal information. Self-regulation is tempting because of failures in a pure market or pure government approach …

online. The key public policy issue regarding privacy is whether the US should follow its current self-regulation course … regulation approach should be adopted in the US, We conclude that the use of assurance seals has worked reasonably well and … opt-in provision be required. We believe that insufficient evidence exists to propose formal Government mandated Internet …

data must be protected. In 2017, the passage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union set an … Regulation, and then the pattern of case law and legislation leading to data protection law(s) in the United States of America … addresses how personal data protection is being addressed by lawmakers vis-à-vis competition law and anti-trust regulation in …