Privacy and Ethics
Data Gathering Policies, Issues to Consider:
- How is data gathered and verified
- How is it maintained (corrected and updated)
- How is it kept secure
- What are the policies for its use
- When will it be destroyed
Terms
- Panopticon ("information prison")
- "opt in" vs "opt out"
- Terms: "data mining" "profiling"
Discussion:
- What are the dangers? Will we live in a "dossier society" or worse,
an "information prison (panopticon)?"
- Carnivore and FIDNet (Federal Intrusion Detection Network).
- DoubleClick.com
- Microsoft's "Hailstorm"
- Workplace surveillance
- As population increases and as communication technology increases,
are we likely to have more or less privacy? Will we value it more or
less.
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COPPA-Children's On-line Privacy Protection Act of 1998
For a socio-political perspective on this topic, see: Oscar
Gandy, The Panoptic Sort. Westview Press, 1993.