The cost of the discomfort felt at the collection of information is especially difficult to quantify.
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Shostack, A., Syverson, P. (2004). What Price Privacy?. In: Camp, L.J., Lewis, S. (eds) Economics of Information Security. Advances in Information Security, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8090-5_10
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