---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 05:28:57 -0400 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>, dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@wasabisystems.com, mac-crypto@vmeng.com Subject: A Market for Secrets (was Re: First Monday August 2001) At 7:46 PM -0500 8/6/01, Edward J. Valauskas wrote:

A Market for Secrets by Eytan Adar and Bernardo A. Huberman http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_8/adar/

Abstract: We propose an electronic market system for private data that guarantees levels of privacy, anonymity and control to individuals while maintaining the ability of other entities to mine their information and automatically pay individuals for their data. We also describe a novel procedure that allows data miners to anonymously contact the creators of the information in case their profiles are needed for future research.

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