[This is Part 4 of my discussion of the theory of "Privacy as Contextual Integrity"]The Impact of new Vehicle TechnologyWhen viewed within existing theories of privacy, any potential impact by new vehicle technologies on the flow of personal information could…
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[This is Part 3 of my discussion of the theory of "Privacy as Contextual Integrity"]To determine the potential impact of new vehcile technologies on the contextual integrity of personal information in the context of highway travel, the first step is…
Read More Privacy as Contextual Integrity (Part 3): Evaluating Existing Norms of Information Flow
[This is Part 2 of my discussion of the theory of "Privacy as Contextual Integrity"]Norms of Information Flow“Privacy as contextual integrity” is not a full theory of privacy; rather, it is a benchmark theory, a conceptual framework that links the…
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Over recent weeks, I have commented on numerous articles about privacy threats involving vehicles and highway travel. I am completing a major research project on this topic, arguing that the introduction of new technologies into the context of highway travel…
Read More Privacy as Contextual Integrity (Part 1): Problem of Privacy in Public
There has been much attention paid to Google's newest feature Google Q&A. Google Q&A (Google's response to features already provided by Yahoo & Ask Jeeves) delivers factual answers for some queries at the top of its results page, to save…
[via The Unofficial Google Weblog] A Wired piece, "What Search Sites Know About You," discusses privacy issues surrounding search engines that also accept site registration and collect personal information: As operators of the most popular search engines roll out more…
[via Freedom to Tinker]Educated Guesswork reports that Texas is considering requiring RFID tags on cars for law enforcement purposes (language of proposed legislation here).This is the continuation of a troubling trend of ways in which the integration of new technologies…
An ACM TechNews article pointed me to AIDE (Adaptive Integrated Driver-vehicle InterfacE), a European initiative to integrate information and communication technology into cars to improve safety. America's version of this program is the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) initiative, which is…
Read More HUMANIST: HUMAN centered design for Information Society Technologies
The PORTIA @ NYU website has launched:PORTIA at NYU focuses on social, political, and ethical aspects of the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of sensitive information about people.Project Team: Dr. Helen Nissenbaum (director), Timothy Weber, Michael Zimmer, Rachel Aridor, and…
Google has announced advanced searching with Firefox:Now Google's faster than ever on Firefox and Mozilla browsers. When you do a search on these browsers, we instruct them to download your top search result in advance, so if you click on…
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