• DocumentCode
    19666
  • Title

    Moral Hazards, Negative Externalities, and the Surveillance Economy

  • Author

    Berghel, Hal

  • Volume
    47
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Feb. 2014
  • Firstpage
    73
  • Lastpage
    77
  • Abstract
    Modern economics includes the art of making common sense abstruse. Terms like moral hazard and negative externality both describe states of transactional imbalance. And this imbalance isn´t limited to economics. When governments are involved, even digital technology can be threatening.
  • Keywords
    economics; government; socio-economic effects; common sense; digital technology; economics; governments; moral hazards; negative externalities; surveillance economy; transactional imbalance state; Ethics; Government; Hazards; National security; Privacy; Surveillance; ACLU v. Clapper; Klayman v. Obama; USA PATRIOT Act; government surveillance; moral hazards; negative externalities;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MC.2014.40
  • Filename
    6756872