The Federal Trade Commission=E2=80=99s chief technologist fights to ensure that companies keep consumers' information safe and private.
When does the free flow of personal data benefit consumers, and when might it damage their pocketbooks?
That question, at the heart of the debate over information economics and fairness, took center stage one day last month when Hal R. Varian, chief economist of Google, and Ashkan Soltani, chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission, participated in a conference on big data and privacy at the Temple University Fox School of Business in Philadelphia.
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