A Market for Secrets (was Re: First Monday August 2001) (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 05:28:57 -0400
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
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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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