An Economic Analysis of Privacy Invasion by Search Engines on the Internet

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24530272
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Applied economics
Research Institution	Waseda University
Principal Investigator	Domon Koji 早稲田大学, 社会科学総合学術院, 教授 (00264995)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords	プライバシー侵害 / 経済政策 / プライバシー / プライバシーの経済分析
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This research considered privacy invasion from a theoretical and a empirical perspectives. In a theoretical analysis, we could show conditions to remedy socially excessive information, causing privacy invasion, in mapping services on the Website by using a tax scheme. In an empirical analysis, we collected samples about an anxiety of Street View in Thailand and Taiwan. It showed that 30 to 40 % of users (including potential users) were afraid of such a service.