[…] they were guaranteed to get credit, while respondents working in health science, told us that they are most concerned about privacy and ethical issues around data sharing. So what are the overall lessons learned from our survey? Publishers have, by […]
[…] 20 or 30 academic book publishers all participate in the creation and exploitation of a common customer database. Drafting the privacy and use policy for such a program would be daunting, but the outcome of such an effort could be […]
[…] (banners, leaderboards, medium rectangles, towers, skyscrapers, and so forth), monitor more data than ever, customize ads based on animation and privacy policies, and so forth. Creating online advertising is complex, expensive, and time-consuming. We’ve been seeing the difficulties of expanding […]
[…] this data will be stored and how to pay for the efforts and services required. Since patient data has strict privacy requirements, it’s unclear how it will be handled. One also must wonder how any such policy can be monitored […]
[…] feed into the IDPF EPUB3 specification. Other non-technical problems arise that need to be addressed, such as copyright concerns and privacy. If an annotation system allows the capture of a selection of the referenced text, one might be able to […]
[…] metadata: information about where things are located, how they relate to other things, how often they circulate (but, rarely, for privacy reasons, about who actually accesses and reads the content). It’s that latter kind of information, the metadata, I am […]
[…] remote access. This meant that a scholar could access a society’s journal — or thousands of journals — from the privacy of his or her study. For some scholars this meant reevaluating the cost of society membership, especially for those […]
[…] media circus politics? Or is that too “open”? If you want solutions, you have to tolerate a certain amount of privacy, secrecy, and discretion. If you want paralysis, you make sure everything is known, everyone is accountable, and nothing goes […]
[…] larger set of users. . . . It underscores the fact that modern systems have vast “surfaces” for attacks on privacy, making it difficult to protect fine-grained information about their users. Unintentional leaks of private information are akin to side-channel […]
[…] on data a computer system can derive and manipulate through myriad factors emanating from a user’s system and transactions. However, privacy advocates warn us that targeting could shade into something more nefarious. Recently, Michael Rosenwald of the Washington Post undertook […]
[…] a nice analysis of how real social networks work and why online social networks leave us feeling exposed and awkward. Privacy may be an issue, but appropriateness is a more nuanced term to describe what we’re lacking. Adams argues convincingly […]
[…] last bullet point about about user data is also particularly troublesome. While Apple portrays its policy as protective of user privacy it is, in fact, deleterious to user experience. If Netflix or Amazon or the Economist does not know who […]
[…] and students with need of remedial technological training. Increasing threat of cybercrime — as campuses lock down their technology, online privacy and intellectual freedom are compromised. “This class brought to you by . . . ” — disaggregated education provided […]
[…] to the best interests of the site’s users. Facebook is the current best example, and their recent moves toward eliminating privacy and selling user data to advertisers and others have come under scrutiny. Despite the recent uproar, Facebook activity doesn’t […]