George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

Episode 6: PEP Director James C. Cooper and Professor Alessandro Acquisti discuss the value allocation and behavioral economics of privacy.

A conversation between PEP Director James C. Cooper and Professor Alessandro Acquisti.

Alessandro Acquisti is the Trustees Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. His research combines economics, behavioral research, and data mining to investigate the role of privacy in a digital society. His studies have promoted the revival of the economics of privacy, advanced the application of behavioral economics to the understanding of consumer privacy valuations and decision-making, and spearheaded the investigation of privacy and disclosures in social media.