From: cvs@openprivacy.orgCVS update: openprivacy/htdocs/notes
Date: Wednesday February 21, 19101 @ 16:28
Author: fen
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</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
- <!-- $Id: whitepaper.shtml,v 1.11 2001/02/13 22:44:03 fen Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: whitepaper.shtml,v 1.12 2001/02/22 00:28:15 fen Exp $ -->
<h1>OpenPrivacy - Building a Better Internet</h1>
@@ -186,13 +186,38 @@
</p>
<h3>Privacy Concerns</h3>
<p>
- <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>
+ Once all this data is collected, there are many ways that it can be
+ used and disseminated by the corporations and government agencies
+ that obtain it. In the simplest cases, one's profile data may be
+ mined for direct mail or demographically-directed marketing
+ campaigns. But it may also be used to determine health care and
+ insurance premiums, credit ratings, and any of a myriad of other
+ uses that the trillion dollar marketing industry may find useful.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ While it is reasonable that a vendor can check one's credit before
+ extending same, should that vendor then be allowed to sell that
+ credit information - attached to your name and address - to any and
+ all takers? And as mentioned above, such trade in personal
+ information is not limited to one's credit-worthiness, but also
+ includes school, work and health records, purchase and travel
+ history, and even sexual preferences. It is clear why many privacy
+ advocates are raising alarms as we become the most tracked and
+ watched society.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ While companies involved in e-commerce are placing "privacy policy"
+ decalarations linked from their home page, they may change these
+ without warning at any time <font color=red>[insert Amazon
+ reference here]</font> or perhaps simply get bought, as with
+ Hotmail discussed above. In Europe, there are strong laws that
+ govern the collection and storage of profile data. These statutes
+ allow for only the collection of data needed for a transaction
+ (such as a credit report) and require that this data be destroyed
+ when no longer needed. However, the United States offers no such
+ protection, and as activists raise concerns, they are met with an
+ industry that offers only "voluntary compliance" with no legal
+ means to enforce adherance to any particular policy.
</p>
<p>
[Privacy page from the DMA: <<a
@@ -200,22 +225,64 @@
</p>
<h3>Anonymity and Fear</h3>
<p>
- The concept of anonymous profile data strikes fear into the hearts
- of marketers, for while they could mine the data for concordances
- of interest, their present understanding is that they would not be
- able to contact the market segments so identified.
+ Law enforcement has traditionally been concerned about people being
+ able to act anonymously, as they perceive a need to be able to
+ track the actions of suspected criminals via such methods as
+ electronic wiretaps and physical surveillance. As more business
+ moves on line, the FBI in particular has proposed and supported
+ numerous bills that extend their ability to watch people as they
+ work, communicate, travel, make purchases, surf the Internet, and
+ generally go about their daily lives. If law abiding citizens have
+ their privacy violated in the process, we are told not to worry,
+ for we can trust the government to only use the data as warranted.
+ Of course, there are countless counter examples, not to mention the
+ all-too-common practice of linking such data bases with information
+ gathered by employers, retailers and health care providers -
+ information that we are generally told will be kept confidential.
+ We can be sure that only a few such instances ever manage to break
+ into the mainstream media <font color=red>[insert Timothy McVeigh
+ military officer outed on AOL for being gay]</font>. Are we all to
+ give up our privacy? [need more arguments here...]
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Within the private sector, the concept of profile data being
+ anonymous - that is, unconnected to a person's name, address and
+ other identifying means - strikes fear into the hearts of
+ marketers, for while they could mine the data for concordances of
+ interest, their present understanding is that they would not be
+ able to contact the market segments so identified. However, as we
+ will show, we propose a method that will provide consumers with the
+ privacy they desire while increasing the amount and quality of
+ information available for data mining and direct marketing purposes.
</p>
</blockquote>
<h2>The New Internet Economy</h2>
<blockquote>
- <h3>Publishing with Pseudonymity</h3>
+ <h3>Anonymity and Pseudonymity</h3>
+ <p>
+ Within any society, anonymity has certain usefulness. Freedom from
+ observation and monitoring of one's physical location, purchases,
+ reading and (e.g.) movie viewing preferances and history are in
+ general no one else's business. There is a reasonable expectation
+ of privacy through confidentiality contracts made between a person
+ and their school, employer, financial institutions and health
+ providers. And in a less common but no less important role, the
+ cloak of anonymity can be well used for purposes of whistle-blowing
+ - an employee's ability to shed light on their employer's
+ questionable business or social practices - without fear of
+ reprisal from one's superiors.
+ </p>
<p>
- Pseudonymity
+ While these characteristics carry through to the on line world,
</p>
<h3>Reputations and Trust</h3>
<p>
</p>
+ <h3>Publishing with Pseudonymity</h3>
+ <p>
+
+ </p>
<h3>The Value of Information [Quality]</h3>
<p>
@@ -256,7 +323,13 @@
<h2>The OpenPrivacy Platform</h2>
<blockquote>
<h3>Opinion</h3>
+ <p>
+
+ </p>
<h3>Reputation</h3>
+ <p>
+
+ </p>
<h3>Bias</h3>
<h3>Profile</h3>
<h3>Security, Trust, Verifiability</h3>
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