Is the market for privacy like the market for lemons?

[osewalrus]

New working hypothesis. If correct, the entire concept of market incentives for privacy needs to be substantially altered. Not that creating such a market is impossible er se, but the belief that disclosure and consumers can "vote with their feet" is provably invalid because the rational consumer -- like the rational car buyer -- must assume that the device is or will become a "privacy lemon" rather than a "privacy creampuff."

Not gonna bother to unpack that unless someone is actually interested. But I need to park it somewhere or two weeks from now I'm going to be looking for the stupid scrap of paper.