Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2021
Abstract
Is privacy a luxury for the rich world? Remarkably, there is a dearth of literature evaluating whether data privacy is too costly for companies to implement, or too expensive for governments to enforce. This paper is the first to offer a review of surveys of costs of compliance, and to summarize national budgets for enforcement. The study shows that while privacy may indeed prove costly for companies to implement, it is not too costly for governments to enforce. This study will help inform governments as they fashion and implement privacy laws to address the “privacy enforcement gap”—the disparity between the privacy on the books, and the privacy on the ground.
Publication Citation
Policy Research Working Paper 9594. World Bank’s World Development Report 2021 Team in collaboration with the Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Chander, Anupam; Abraham, Meaza; Chandy, Sandeep; Fang, Yuan; Park, Dayoung; and Yu, Isabel, "Achieving Privacy: Costs of Compliance and Enforcement of Data Protection Regulation" (2021). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2374.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2374
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