October 16, 2009 – MichaelZimmer.org

Privads: Privacy Preserving Targeted Advertising

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 16, 2009in Privacy, Values In Design

Helen Nissenbaum and others on the PORTIA and PRESIDIO projects have released a white paper describing Privads, a client-side behavioral advertising system designed to protect users' privacy: Online behavioral advertising (OBA) refers to the practice of tracking users across web…

Open Access Day at UW-Milwaukee

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 16, 2009in Events, Information Ethics

Next week, October 19 – 23, 2009, will mark the first international Open Access Week, celebrating the international movement working to "throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge." Encouraging the unrestricted sharing of scholarly and scientific research, the…