Jim Harper writes: The recent European Commission proposal to create a radical and likely near impossible-to-implement “right to be forgotten” provides an opportunity to do some thinking about how privacy norms should be established. After quoting some interesting thoughts from philosopher-lawyer Bruno Leoni, Jim comments: The proposed “right to be forgotten” is a soaring flight of fancy, produced…
Category: Misc
Article: “But the data is already public”: on the ethics of research in Facebook
Michael Zimmer’s article, “But the data is already public”: on the ethics of research in Facebook , which appeared in Ethics and Information Technology (Volume 12, Number 4, 313-325), is now available online for download at SpringerLink. Here’s the abstract: In 2008, a group of researchers publicly released profile data collected from the Facebook accounts…
Clementi And The Nature Of Privacy Harm
Ryan Calo writes: Ann Bartow once criticized Daniel Solove for not providing enough “dead bodies” in his discussion of privacy. I tend to disagree that such proof is necessary. But privacy has seen a dead body recently—that of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi. The narrative around Clementi’s tragic suicide continues to shift. The press originally reported that…
Article: Unraveling Privacy: The Personal Prospectus & the Threat of a Full Disclosure Future
Yesterday I posted a link to a thought-provoking post by Scott Peppet on Concurring Opinions. Here is the abstract of his forthcoming article in Northwestern University Law Review on the topic: Information technologies are reducing the costs of credible signaling, just as they have reduced the costs of data mining and economic sorting. The…