Difference between revisions of "Policy questions"
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-> accountability of search companies across borders? (kinda talked about already, with respect to china and server location) | -> accountability of search companies across borders? (kinda talked about already, with respect to china and server location) | ||
| − | Transparency | + | Transparency |
-> algorithms | -> algorithms | ||
| − | Aggregation of Information and Privacy (the big one) | + | Aggregation of Information and Privacy (the big one) |
-> laws against selling data of particular formats? | -> laws against selling data of particular formats? | ||
-> making data/privacy policies clear | -> making data/privacy policies clear | ||
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According to Chris Hoofnagle (from http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/search_papers/hoofnagle.pdf): | According to Chris Hoofnagle (from http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/search_papers/hoofnagle.pdf): | ||
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"A privacy dialogue concerning search histories would include: | "A privacy dialogue concerning search histories would include: | ||
• A discussion of identification: do search engines need to identify users? Can they | • A discussion of identification: do search engines need to identify users? Can they | ||
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| − | Themes to keep in mind during discussion: | + | Themes to keep in mind during discussion: |
--transparency of search algoritms | --transparency of search algoritms | ||
--readability of privacy/data policies | --readability of privacy/data policies | ||
Revision as of 00:23, 30 May 2006
Is search a public service on a public good (web)? -> should it be regulated as such? -> some moves for nationalized search engines -> analogy of search index to local phone companies open lines to long distance companies
Cross-national position of search engines -> exporting censorship -> accountability of search companies across borders? (kinda talked about already, with respect to china and server location)
Transparency -> algorithms
Aggregation of Information and Privacy (the big one)
-> laws against selling data of particular formats?
-> making data/privacy policies clear
- tied to web browser?
- http://www.w3.org/P3P/
-> how should data be scrubbed?
- transparency of scrubbing procedure
According to Chris Hoofnagle (from http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/search_papers/hoofnagle.pdf): "A privacy dialogue concerning search histories would include: • A discussion of identification: do search engines need to identify users? Can they do so pseudonymously? In personalized search situations, are there ways to divorce identification data from historical search results (that is, by applying a profile to the user rather than use that individual's specific search history for analysis)? • A discussion of data retention: how long is too long? • A discussion on government access: what barriers (legal and technological) are there to law enforcement access to personal information collected by search engines? What will prevent a search engine from making law enforcement requests for data too easy (as AOL did by establishing data retention policies favorable to law enforcement, and by waiving service obligations to speed government access to data)? • A discussion on commercialization of data: what limits are there are the resale of search engine history information?"
Themes to keep in mind during discussion: --transparency of search algoritms --readability of privacy/data policies
