Law in the Internet Society

View   r4  >  r3  ...
AreTradeOffsNecessary 4 - 29 Sep 2014 - Main.MathewKenneally
Line: 1 to 1
 
META TOPICPARENT name="WebPreferences"

-- MathewKenneally - 16 Sep 2014

Line: 18 to 18
 For better or worse, we'll probably grow less and less distressed at the prospect of our tastes and preferences being used to drive advertising and other decisions. So long as those decisions are fundamentally benign, anyway: we can probably agree that American Express lowering someone's credit limit on the basis of big data harms them unfairly, whether it's a breach of privacy or not.

-- SamuelRoth - 17 Sep 2014

Added:
>
>

Thanks Kaitlin, Samuel

I am curious about the notion of consent in a digital ecosystem. I understand there as being two types of a consent: an individuals consent to lose privacy; and the wider consent of a society to certain intrusions.

How do we obtain societal consent to sacrifice privacy in circumstances where surveillance technology and hardware is advancing at an exponential rate? For example in the US a distinction was drawn in 1979 by the Supreme Court between meta-data and content of calls. The former not being caught by the 4th Amendment. Further, legislation permitted spying on foreign nationals, not Americans. The technology in the early 20th Century increased the volume, availability of metadata. Further the nature of the internet meant spying on foreigners would invariably lead to incidental spying on Americans.

How can we establish norms and legal rules today that won't be swept aside quickly by advances in technology?

-- MathewKenneally - 29 Sep 2014

 
 
<--/commentPlugin-->

Revision 4r4 - 29 Sep 2014 - 19:59:28 - MathewKenneally
Revision 3r3 - 17 Sep 2014 - 18:27:40 - SamuelRoth
This site is powered by the TWiki collaboration platform.
All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors.
All material marked as authored by Eben Moglen is available under the license terms CC-BY-SA version 4.
Syndicate this site RSSATOM