Trusting privacy in the cloud

Jens Prüfer

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Abstract

Cloud computing technologies can increase innovation and economic growth considerably. Because of privacy concerns, however, many users underutilize cloud technologies. This paper designs an institution attenuating the problem: a two-layered certification scheme built around a private, nonprofit organization called cloud association. This association is governed by representatives of both users and cloud service providers and sources auditing and certification of providers out to independent for-profit certifiers. It is shown how this institution incentivizes providers to produce high data security, and users with strong privacy preferences to trust them and pay a premium for their services
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)52-67
JournalInformation Economics and Policy
Volume45
Early online dateOct 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2018

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economic growth
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Privacy
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Privacy concerns
Nonprofit organization
Data security
Cloud computing
Economic growth
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Keywords

  • Trust
  • Private Ordering
  • Associations
  • certification
  • Privacy

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Prüfer, Jens. / Trusting privacy in the cloud. In: Information Economics and Policy. 2018 ; Vol. 45. pp. 52-67.
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

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