Kenneth C. Laudon

Kenneth Laudon graduated from Stanford University and has a Ph.D from Columbia University.{{cite web|url=http://people.stern.nyu.edu/klaudon |title=Prof. Ken Laudon |publisher=People.stern.nyu.edu |date= |access-date=2013-11-21}}

Laudon's first book, Computers and Bureaucratic Reform: The Political Functions of Urban Information Systems (John Wiley and Sons, 1974) was an early study of the use of computers in government.James W. Cortada, The Digital Hand, Vol. 3: How Computers Changed the Work of American Public Sector Industries, Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 445

Laudon's second book, Communications Technology and Democratic Participation (Praeger Publishing, 1978) has been cited as a "pioneering work" on the impact of information technology on the development of different types of democracies.Chadwick Andrew and Christopher May, "Interaction between States and Citizens in the Age of the Internet: 'e-Government' in the United States, Britain, and the European Union," Governance, Volume 16, Issue 2, pp. 271-300, April 2003

Laudon's third book was Dossier Society: Value Choices in the Design of National Information Systems (Columbia University Press, 1986).{{cite web|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=6477 |title=Dossier society: value choices in the design of national information systems |publisher=Dl.acm.org |date= |access-date=2013-11-21}} In Dossier Society, Laudon argued that the design and uses of new computing and telecommunications systems, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Computerized Criminal History System, were creating what he called a “dossier society” that would be increasingly based on a person’s data image.{{Cite journal |jstor=4308212 |title=Dossier Society: Value Choices in the Design of National Information Systems by Kenneth C. Laudon

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Laudon subsequently authored an influential article, "Markets and Privacy" (Communications of the ACM, 1996). This article proposed that people should have a property right in their personal information, enabling them to sell that information, perhaps through a national information market.{{cite journal |url=http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs199r/readings/laudon.pdf |title=Markets & Privacy |access-date=2013-11-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616212919/http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs199r/readings/laudon.pdf |archive-date=2012-06-16 }}{{cite news|author=Published: July 15, 2001 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/15/weekinreview/the-nation-your-data-yourself-a-protective-path-paved-in-granola.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm |title=The Nation: Your Data, Yourself; A Protective Path Paved in Granola - Page 2 - New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=2001-07-15 |access-date=2013-11-21}} This article has been recognized as one of the first to suggest a propertization of information privacy {{cite web |url=http://www.californialawreview.org/assets/pdfs/98-6/Mayer-Schonberger.FINAL-FIXED.pdf |title=Beyond Privacy, Beyond Rights–Toward a "Systems" Theory of Information Governance |access-date=2013-11-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629102823/http://www.californialawreview.org/assets/pdfs/98-6/Mayer-Schonberger.FINAL-FIXED.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-29 }} as well as the institutional infrastructure that might be used to make such an information property rights system a reality.{{cite web|url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/Contract/Samuelson_Full.html |title=Samuelson Full |publisher=Cyber.law.harvard.edu |date= |access-date=2013-11-21}}{{cite web|url=http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/privacy/ |title=Economic Aspects of Personal Privacy |publisher=People.ischool.berkeley.edu |date= |access-date=2013-11-21}} A follow-on paper published by the U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration discusses how personal information might be priced.{{cite web|url=http://www.ntia.doc.gov/page/chapter-1-theory-markets-and-privacy |title=Chapter 1: Theory of Markets and Privacy | NTIA |publisher=Ntia.doc.gov |date= |access-date=2013-11-21}} Laudon's work has recently been cited as a source for a proposal that Facebook create an information market and pay its users in exchange for their information or attitudes.{{cite web|last=Dhar |first=Vasant |url=https://www.wired.com/business/2012/06/opinion-get-paid-for-your-fb-data/ |title=Get Paid for Your Data on Facebook | Wired Business |publisher=Wired.com |date=2013-03-28 |access-date=2013-11-21}} Laudon is also the author a number of academic articles with respect to the impacts of information systems.

Professor Laudon is also well known as the co-author of a number of textbooks, including Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm and E-commerce. Business. Technology. Society.

He died at his home in Croton-on-Hudson on December 26, 2019.[https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/croton-on-hudson-ny/kenneth-laudon-8974432 Kenneth Laudon Obituary]

• Information Systems
• Management Information System (MIS)
• E-commerce
• Privacy

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