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Privacy on Social Networks: Norms, Markets, and

Natural Monopoly

• “Second Chance”

• Facebook

• Twitter

• MySpace

Second Chance•

• Second Chance

• MySpace Facebook

• Facebook

• Facebook

Facebook MySpace

• Facebook

• Facebook

• General General

• Facebook, MySpace, Google+

• Niche

• LinkedIn

• Twitter

• Flickr

• / Privacy Policy

• Privacy Practice

• Privacy Control

• untag

• Data Security

vs • command and control regulation

• “the direct regulation of an industry or activity by legislation that states what is permitted and what is illegal”

• mandated standard

• ...

vs

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Facebook being anti-competitive

• Plaxo vs Facebook

• Google vs Facebook

• Microsoft vs Facebook

Google vs Facebook

• Google Facebook Google

• Facebook Google

• Facebook

• Facebook

Plaxo vs Facebook

• Plaxo Facebook Plaxo

• Facebook Plaxo

• Facebook

• Facebook

Microsoft vs Facebook

• Facebook Microsoft Windows Live Messenger

• “It is unclear how the privacy interests of users are substantially different in this circumstance from those in situations with Google or Plaxo.”

Facebook’s reaction• Create “Facebook Connect”

• “approved” Facebook

• Facebook “approved”

• “Facebook is already leveraging its monopoly power.”

Facebook’s reaction

• Facebook

• “Mark Zuckerberg has justified these changes by arguing that “social norms” have developed whereby users no longer value online privacy.”

Conclusion• “To the extent that one social networking site

develops monopoly power, and succeeds in raising switching costs and mooting the threat of entry, we can expect such a monopolistic site to engage in suboptimal levels of privacy protection.”