Abstract
After the breakout of new corona infection, active
discussions are started on how to use personal data
in an emergency. This paper discusses the use of
personal data and privacy protection in crisis situations such as the new corona infection, and what
kind of suggests can be obtained from the viewpoint
of “economics of privacy”. In Japan, privacy and security protection issues are discussed exclusively
from the viewpoint of a legal framework. In europe
and the U.S., policy discussions are examining how
policy decisions on data protection affect stakeholder
trade-offs from an economic perspective. In this paper, I introduce the “economics of privacy”, which is
not familiar in Japan, and discuss the usefulness of
economic analysis of privacy in crisis situations.
