From: cvs@openprivacy.orgCVS update: openprivacy/htdocs/notes
Date: Monday February 26, 19101 @ 19:43
Author: fen
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merged and cleaned up anonymity
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<h1>OpenPrivacy - Building a Better Internet</h1>
@@ -151,33 +151,43 @@
<blockquote>
<h3>Anonymity</h3>
<p>
- Within any society, anonymity has certain usefulness. Freedom from
+ Within any society, anonymity has decided 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.
+ reading and movie viewing preferences and history are, by and large,
+ 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.
+ As well, in a less common but no less important role, the cloak of
+ anonymity can be used by the oppressed to bring the sins of
+ their oppressors to light without fear of retribution.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ That said, 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 an unknowing public via electronic
+ wiretaps, online data collection and physical surveillance. The
+ aggregated information is often linked to ostensibly confidential
+ databases gathered by employers, retailers and health care
+ providers. If law abiding citizens have their privacy violated in
+ the process, we are told not to worry, for we can "trust the
+ government."
</p>
- <h3>Reputations and Trust</h3>
<p>
+ Within the business world, 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 belief is that they would not be able to contact the
+ market segments so identified.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ With the OpenPrivacy platform... <font color=red>[we will provide
+ consumers with the privacy they desire while increasing the amount
+ and quality of information available for data mining and direct
+ marketing purposes. - address all three issues]</font>
+ </p>
+ <h3>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
@@ -189,9 +199,10 @@
<p>
Trust is a key point, and when many people trust some entity it
gains a positive reputation. (Note: negative reputations are
- possible, too.)
+ possible, too.) The OpenPrivacy platform allows trust to be
+ negotiated as...
</p>
- <h3>Publishing with Pseudonymity</h3>
+ <h3>Pseudonymity and Reputations</h3>
<p>
</p>
@@ -392,38 +403,6 @@
<p>
[Privacy page from the DMA: <<a
href="http://www.the-dma.org/library/privacy/index.shtml">http://www.the-dma.org/library/privacy/index.shtml>>]
- </p>
- <h3>Anonymity and Fear</h3>
- <p>
- 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 online, 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>References</h2>