One outcome of this consensus is the ‘consent regime’, which paves the way for monetisation of personal data. You tick a box to give your ‘consent’ and that’s it, so far as your privacy is concerned – it’s now a tradable commodity. But is it ok to have markets for privacy? Or, is it similar to having markets for organs, or for blood donation, or for child labour?

A new scholarly paper titled, ‘Data and Privacy: Putting markets in (their) place’ uses the economic concept of “noxious markets” to question whether privacy should be a tradeable commodity at all. What if it isn’t something that should be traded?

Guest: Reetika Khera, Professor of Economics at IIT, Delhi

Host: G Sampath, Social Affairs Editor, The Hindu

Shot by Jude Weston & Almas Mohammad

Producer and editor: Jude Weston

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