From: cvs@openprivacy.orgCVS update: openprivacy/htdocs/notes
Date: Monday February 26, 19101 @ 18:52
Author: fen
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</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
- <!-- $Id: whitepaper.shtml,v 1.17 2001/02/27 02:17:40 fen Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: whitepaper.shtml,v 1.18 2001/02/27 02:52:49 fen Exp $ -->
<h1>OpenPrivacy - Building a Better Internet</h1>
@@ -47,8 +47,26 @@
owner of the profile maintains her anonymity.
</p>
</blockquote>
- <h2><a name="overview">Background</a></h2>
+ <h2><a name="platform">The OpenPrivacy Platform</a></h2>
<blockquote>
+ <h3>Philosophy</h3>
+ <p>
+ While we provide a system that securely protects one's privacy, we
+ are focusing our efforts on creating an <i>open</i> system. By
+ "open" we mean much more than merely being Open Source with open,
+ published APIs. We are creating a mechanism for communication and
+ interaction that provides free and open access to all.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In order to be able to freely search for and collect, read, write,
+ publish and distribute information in a highly networked society
+ without fear of reprisal, there must be a mechanism that can
+ dissociate a user from her actions. It is our intention and firm
+ belief that pseudonymous entities, combined with our concepts of
+ reputation and their intrinsic value, will form the cornerstone of
+ a powerful and unlimited communications mechanism that allows us to
+ make better informed, useful and profitable decisions.
+ </p>
<h3>Overview</h3>
<p>
What you do tells a lot about who you are. For example, where you
@@ -106,45 +124,137 @@
avail themselves of targeted, high-quality profile information with
the full cooperation and confidence of a pseudonymous user.
</p>
- <h3>Philosophy</h3>
+ <h3>Reputation Calculation Engine</h3>
+ <h3>Reference Applications</h3>
+ <blockquote>
+ <h4>JetsPeek</h4>
+ <h4>OpenPrivacy-enabled Communities (e.g. Slashdot and Advogato)</h4>
+ </blockquote>
+ <h3>Security, Trust, Verifiability</h3>
+ <h3>Attack Resistance</h3>
<p>
- While we provide a system that securely protects one's privacy, we
- are focusing our efforts on creating an <i>open</i> system. By
- "open", we mean much more than merely being Open Source with open,
- published APIs. We are creating a mechainsm for communications and
- interaction that provides free and open access to all.
+ <ul>
+ <li><b>Denial of service (DOS):</b>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>Spoofing:</b>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>Replay:</b>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>Flooding:</b>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>Shills/Slander/False claims:</b>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ </blockquote>
+ <h2><a name="economy">OpenPrivacy Enhances The New Internet Economy</a></h2>
+ <blockquote>
+ <h3>Anonymity</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 preferences 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>
- In order to be able to freely search for and collect, read, write,
- publish and distribute information in a highly networked society
- without fear of reprisal, there must be a mechanism that can
- dissociate a user from her actions. It is our intention and firm
- belief that pseudonymous entities combined with our concepts of
- reputation and ins intrinsic value will form the cornerstone for a
- powerful and unlimited communications mechanism that will allow us
- all to make better informed and more profitable - in every sense of
- the word - decisions.
+ While these characteristics carry through to the online world,
+ there is a growing desire for personalized services that anonymity
+ cannot satisfy. People want personalized services, and portals such
+ as my.Yahoo.com, community sites ranging from Slashdot to iGolf, and
+ e-commerce sites such as Amazon and eBay all collect information on
+ their member users and use this information to provide welcome
+ services. Many of these sites now display a <i>privacy policy</i>
+ intended to describe the way in which collected information will be
+ used - and these often profess that they store no personally
+ identifiable information - but in any case, it is out of the user's
+ hands and control.
+ </p>
+ <h3>Reputations and Trust</h3>
+ <p>
+ Anonymity has very real limitations, both in the social and business
+ worlds. We find <i>trust</i> is built on the security of knowing
+ and building relationships with our acquaintances and places of
+ business over time. On the flip side, companies want to be able to
+ provide personalized services that enhance their customer's
+ experience and further, to understand their wants and capabilities
+ so that they can be marketed to effectively.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Trust is a key point, and when many people trust some entity it
+ gains a positive reputation. (Note: negative reputations are
+ possible, too.)
+ </p>
+ <h3>Publishing with Pseudonymity</h3>
+ <p>
+
+ </p>
+ <h3>The Value of Information [Quality]</h3>
+ <p>
+
+ </p>
+ <h3>An Agoric, Reputation-based Marketplace [Capitalism]</h3>
+ <p>
+
+ </p>
+ <h3>Efficiency Via Chaos and Bias</h3>
+ <p>
+ Chaos is an essential element for systems to evolve, for without
+ it the unexpected changes and mutations that lead to new, often
+ revolutionary processes will not have a chance to occur. The very
+ fact that people are all different - not only from each other but
+ even with one's self from moment to moment - has a valuable
+ ramification: that we all have different opinions and bias. This
+ points to a major failing of search engines: that each person who
+ enters the same search X probably has a slightly different mind
+ set of what they would like to see as results.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ OpenPrivacy thrives in this multitude of opinion, this diversity
+ of thought, for though we are all different, there are certain
+ areas that two very different people may align with. For example,
+ suppose person A reads the New York Times every day and finds an
+ average of four articles that A considers tops - well worth the
+ cost of the paper and her time to find them. Now consider that
+ there probably exists a person B who finds the same four articles
+ to be indispensable. The safe, secure, pseudonymous publishing
+ environment of OpenPrivacy, along with the agoric marketplace of a
+ million infomediaries looking for valuable concordances, make it
+ possible for these two people to virtually meet. Further, A may
+ strike a deal with B to provide her with the editorial filtering
+ process, saving A time and aiding B at least in reputation if not
+ also financially.
</p>
+ </blockquote>
+ <h2><a name="overview">Background</a></h2>
+ <blockquote>
<h3>What a Profile Is (and How Profile Data Is Used)</h3>
<p>
When we talk of a person's <i>profile</i> we are referring to a
store of information that may include one's name, age, gender, phone
number, postal or electronic mail address, purchase history, web
- surfing habits, subscriptions, or any of a multitude of other
- personal preferences, traits and abilities. Often, a persistent
- cookie is deposited by a company's web site on one's computer or
- other device so that the company can track the individual's behavior
- as they browse the company's site. More advanced systems, such as
- those used by DoubleClick, can track a person from site to site.
- The capability to accumulate and cross-reference this data supports
- the multi-billion dollar industry of direct marketing.
+ surfing habits, subscriptions or any of a multitude of personal
+ preferences, traits and abilities. Often, a persistent cookie is
+ deposited by a company's web site on one's computer or other
+ personal information device so that the company can track the
+ individual's behavior as they browse the company's site. More
+ advanced systems, such as those used by DoubleClick, can track a
+ person from site to site. The capability to accumulate and
+ cross-reference this data is what supports the multi-billion dollar
+ direct marketing industry.
</p>
<h3>Data Mining</h3>
<p>
Technology enables the collection and storage of vast quantities of
data. Finding, summarizing, and creating models of the patterns,
trends and projections from this data is what <i>data mining</i> is
- all about. It is a marriage of statistices, machine learning,
+ all about. It is a marriage of statistics, machine learning,
information theory and computing that has formed a mathematical
base for a science that has increasingly powerful tools at its
disposal. In particular, direct marketers have created data mining
@@ -316,92 +426,7 @@
information available for data mining and direct marketing purposes.
</p>
</blockquote>
- <h2><a name="economy">The New Internet Economy</a></h2>
- <blockquote>
- <h3>Anonymity</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 preferences 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>
- While these characteristics carry through to the online world,
- there is a growing desire for personalized services that anonymity
- cannot satisfy. People want personalized services, and portals such
- as my.Yahoo.com, community sites ranging from Slashdot to iGolf, and
- e-commerce sites such as Amazon and eBay all collect information on
- their member users and use this information to provide welcome
- services. Many of these sites now display a <i>privacy policy</i>
- intended to describe the way in which collected information will be
- used - and these often profess that they store no personally
- identifiable information - but in any case, it is out of the user's
- hands and control.
- </p>
- <h3>Reputations and Trust</h3>
- <p>
- Anonymity has very real limitations, both in the social and business
- worlds. We find <i>trust</i> is built on the security of knowing
- and building relationships with our acquaintances and places of
- business over time. On the flip side, companies want to be able to
- provide personalized services that enhance their customer's
- experience and further, to understand their wants and capabilities
- so that they can be marketed to effectively.
- </p>
- <p>
- Trust is a key point, and when many people trust some entity it
- gains a positive reputation. (Note: negative reputations are
- possible, too.)
- </p>
- <h3>Publishing with Pseudonymity</h3>
- <p>
-
- </p>
- <h3>The Value of Information [Quality]</h3>
- <p>
-
- </p>
- <h3>An Agoric, Reputation-based Marketplace [Capitalism]</h3>
- <p>
-
- </p>
- <h3>Efficiency Via Chaos and Bias</h3>
- <p>
- Chaos is an essential element for systems to evolve, for without
- it the unexpected changes and mutations that lead to new, often
- revolutionary processes will not have a chance to occur. The very
- fact that people are all different - not only from each other but
- even with one's self from moment to moment - has a valuable
- ramification: that we all have different opinions and bias. This
- points to a major failing of search engines: that each person who
- enters the same search X probably has a slightly different mind
- set of what they would like to see as results.
- </p>
- <p>
- OpenPrivacy thrives in this multitude of opinion, this diversity
- of thought, for though we are all different, there are certain
- areas that two very different people may align with. For example,
- suppose person A reads the New York Times every day and finds an
- average of four articles that A considers tops - well worth the
- cost of the paper and her time to find them. Now consider that
- there probably exists a person B who finds the same four articles
- to be indispensable. The safe, secure, pseudonymous publishing
- environment of OpenPrivacy, along with the agoric marketplace of a
- million infomediaries looking for valuable concordances, make it
- possible for these two people to virtually meet. Further, A may
- strike a deal with B to provide her with the editorial filtering
- process, saving A time and aiding B at least in reputation if not
- also financially.
- </p>
- </blockquote>
- <h2><a name="platform">The OpenPrivacy Platform</a></h2>
+ <h2>References</h2>
<blockquote>
<h3>Definitions</h3>
<blockquote>
@@ -460,26 +485,6 @@
</dd>
</dl>
</blockquote>
- <h3>Reputation Calculation Engine</h3>
- <h3>Security, Trust, Verifiability</h3>
- <h3>Attack Resistance</h3>
- <p>
- <ul>
- <li><b>Denial of service (DOS):</b>
- </li>
- <li><b>Spoofing:</b>
- </li>
- <li><b>Replay:</b>
- </li>
- <li><b>Flooding:</b>
- </li>
- <li><b>Shills/Slander/False claims:</b>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </p>
- </blockquote>
- <h2>References</h2>
- <blockquote>
<h3>Bibliography</h3>
<dl>
<dt><a name="anon">[anon]</a> The Anonymizer
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