Is Privacy Bad for Business?

MIT's Technology Report recently suggested that European privacy laws are having a negative impact on the economy. The article cited MIT professor Catherine Tucker's research study which found that the effectiveness of online ads dropped 65% in countries that adopted the 2002 e-Privacy Directive. Josh Lerner at Harvard Business School has estimated that venture capital investment in European companies dropped about 73 percent following the implementation of the 2002 directive. Despite these negative economic indicators, Tucker predicts that the U.S. will follow Europe's privacy-weighted system in the long run "because we think it's something consumers want."

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