habits, when matched with their financial and demographic information, could poten-
tially pose a far bigger information security threat. This threat may increase with the
increasing use of paywalls and potentially micropayments for information content
(
Chiou and Tucker, 2013). Therefore, though much of the discussion on privacy has
focused on advertising, it seems likely that there may in the future need to be far greater
discussion about the economics of information security rather than privacy in the media
context.
11.7. PRIVACY AND THE GOVERNMENT
A more recent issue is how government surveillance of its citizens affects Internet and
media firms. This is an area which has attracted the interest of legal scholars and, outside
of the United States, ...