Yahoo's Disgrace
By David Levine on April 21, 2007 at 12:47 am
Sadly, Yahoo is no stranger to morally questionable business decisions relating to their dealings with the Chinese government. Read more about Yahoo's Disgrace
Privacy has become one of the defining issue of the Information Age. CIS has received national recognition for its interdisciplinary and multi-angle examination of privacy, particularly as it relates to emerging technology.
By David Levine on April 21, 2007 at 12:47 am
Sadly, Yahoo is no stranger to morally questionable business decisions relating to their dealings with the Chinese government. Read more about Yahoo's Disgrace
By Lauren Gelman on April 16, 2007 at 9:15 am
Attached is my power point presentation from the Web 2.0 Expo on user generated content and privacy Read more about Web 2.0 Expo: User Generated Content and Privacy
By Christian Laux on April 14, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Anyone still in doubt whether user data is valuable? Take a look at the news and learn: User data is worth the double of what Google paid for YouTube –– Google just bought DoubleClick for USD 3.1 bn. Read more about User Data = 2 x Video
By Christian Laux on April 12, 2007 at 1:02 pm
It is a common mantra both of industry’s and consumers’ advocates that legislation related to radio frequency identification ("RFID") should be technology-neutral.
I am not convinced although the mantra has some merits: A tech-specific act is likely to become useless once there is technological improvement. Also, technology specific regulation might lead to unequal treatment. Further, technology specific regulation can lead to a different perception of several categories of data. This might have the undesired effect that some data is looked at to be worthy of protection while other data starts to be overlooked and gets in fact less protection. And this would disregard the choice of the consumer: What can be cool for one, can be a concern for another one. Legislation should give the consumer the tools so he can determine whether he has a privacy concern or not. And technology specific legislation is less likely to operate on this general level.
However, to me it still looks all right to create and apply technology specific rules if one intends to regulate a pervasive technology. Read more about Must RFID-Legislation Be Technology Neutral?