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 (contrast to European law?)

European Union Safe Harbor Program

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. In some cases, the court/lawyers had trouble even describing the technology that the stalker had used.

Relevant Internet technologies -- cookies, spyware (including remote-install no-warning versions!), forms and "voluntary" information.

P3P

Smart cards

Problems/Solutions