From: cvs@openprivacy.orgCVS update: openprivacy/htdocs/notes
Date: Thursday February 8, 19101 @ 1:31
Author: fen
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Update of /usr/local/cvs/public/openprivacy/htdocs/notes
In directory giga:/home/fen/projects/openprivacy/htdocs/notes
Modified Files:
whitepaper.shtml
Log Message:
some more ramblings
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--- openprivacy/htdocs/notes/whitepaper.shtml:1.1 Thu Feb 8 00:27:19 2001
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<!--#include virtual="/includes/top.html"-->
<!--#include virtual="/includes/navigation.html"-->
+<!-- $Id: whitepaper.shtml,v 1.2 2001/02/08 09:31:56 fen Exp $ -->
<h2>OpenPrivacy - Building a Better Internet</h2>
@@ -32,5 +33,57 @@
but others may - if granted access, can mine for potentially profitable
correlations.
+<h3>Background</h3>
+The way that personal (profile) information is collected and used today is
+grossly inefficient not to mention a massive violation of privacy. It
+developed over the course of the last hundred years as capitalism matured
+and corporations grew more powerful. New, precise mechanisms could replace
+the current shotgun approach, but Industry is so far along the path paved by
+their marketers that they can't see the opportunity. (Remember that the
+marketers were originally beholden to Industry, but now Industry is beholden
+to the marketers.)
+
+<h3>What a Profile Is (and How Is Profile Data Used)</h3>
+
+<font color="red"><i>
+how is profile data collected? what does it comprise of? how is it used?
+what is its value?
+</i></font>
+<p>
+
+For traditional marketing mechanisms to work, profile data must be linkable
+to the people that it refers to. Such links may be one's phone number,
+postal or electronic mail address, a persistent cookie saved by a company's
+web site on one's computer, or other devices.
+
+<h3>Privacy Concerns</h3>
+
+<font color="red"><i>
+being tracked and watched. junk mail. spam. profile data being used,
+misused and sold without the principal's permission.
+</i></font>
+
+<h3>Anonymity</h3>
+
+The concept of anonymous profile data strikes fear into the hearts of
+marketers, for while they could mine the data for concordances of interest,
+they would not be able to contact the market segments so identified.
+
+<h3>Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation Systems</h3>
+
+The data mining of anonymous data can have its uses, as in simple
+collaborative filtering systems. These systems collect inputs from many
+people on a particular subject (say, what their current favorite movie is)
+and then average the results and come up with recommendations. This works
+with reasonable accuracy in a well behave populace...
+
+<h3>Pseudonymity and Reputations</h3>
+
+Pseudonymity
+
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+
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