Talk:Student Projects:Privacy Internet

Patchwork Laws

[TedZ]: I'm almost done reading the chapter in Asprey re: privacy. One point that I find interesting is that US law is a "piecewise patchwork" (my own interpretation of the text) of laws, and apparently that's ok with everybody in the legal system. Europe appears to have a more unified approach to privicay. Comments?

Interesting links

[Electronic Privacy Information Center http://www.epic.org]: has an article about RFID chips.

[AIM Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility: http://www.aimglobal.org/technologies/rfid]

[Electronic Frontier Foundation: http://www.eff.org/]

[Privacy on the Internet: http://reason.com/bipriv.shtml]

[Privacy and the Internet http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/st_org/iptf/commentary/content/2000041901.html]

Possible Topics -- random thoughts for outlining

[TedZ]

US Privacy Laws

Is technology outstripping the law? Witness several recent cases of stalking, where the stalkers utilized high tech equipment such as GPS transmitters, webcams, and spyware to harass victims -- in many cases, the stalkers' actions were "on the edge" of current law.

Relevant Internet technologies -- cookies, spyware (including remote-install no-warning versions!)