Privacy and Data

From Jessica's intro email:

Specifically, I think the following are very interesting questions:

• Should government take a role in protecting our personal data? Examing the EU has its Data Privacy Directive could be interesting here? How does this play out when a European citizen gives an American company his personal data?
• Is privacy a fundamental human value that should be protected? Or is privacy something that should be evolved with the technologies that are emerging?
• What can technological architectures do to protect privacy? What can policy do to protect privacy? How can technology and policy be co-evolved to protect privacy?
• Who should own personal data stored on a server? The person that the data is about or the company that owns the server? Should the person that the data is about have the right to request edits or deletion of the data? How could this be done with policy/technology?

Privacy and Access to Data: Can Technology Help Them Co-Exist?

Santtu 14:57, 9 November 2005 (PST)

I plan on looking at whether technology can help maintain privacy while at the same time allowing access to the data through means such as anonymization or aggregation. Section will include an overview of the issue, discussion of research in this area, an evaluation of existing tools and programs such as SRD's (now IBM's) NORA.

(A more complete and lengthier outline to come...)