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Current Topic: Internet Civil Liberties

Larry Lessig on 'The Classic Declan'
Topic: Internet Civil Liberties 7:28 pm EST, Dec  7, 2003

In classic Declan style, a storm rages on Declan's list about a quote of mine that ran in the Economist.

Declan read the article and concluded from it that "Lessig wants to preserve freedom by ending anonymity" and so of course, his list, and my inbox, raged with the outrage at such a thought.

But what no one seems to have taken time to do is actually look at the article. For Declan's statement has no relation to anything the article actually says.

Declan is a brilliant writer, and excellent pundit. But he is more a bomb thrower than a careful reader. His readers should keep this in mind.

Larry Lessig on 'The Classic Declan'


Privacy and Property on the Net: Research Questions
Topic: Internet Civil Liberties 6:26 pm EST, Dec  7, 2003

Perhaps the most interesting quality of Internet and other data transmission networks is their potential to alter power relationships with respect to personal privacy and intellectual property.

The idea that government should regulate intellectual property ... is relatively recent in human history, and the details may vary and change. Consider music.

Extensive economic research has not conclusively answered the question of whether the patent system really promotes innovation.

What is the optimal design for such a multitiered confidentiality system?

This essay appears in the December 5 issue of Science Magazine. The author is a division director at the National Science Foundation.

Privacy and Property on the Net: Research Questions


The Influence of Policy Regimes on the Development and Social Implications of Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Topic: Internet Civil Liberties 12:16 am EDT, Oct 25, 2001

"As privacy issues have gained social salience, entrepreneurs have begun to offer privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) and the U.S. has begun to enact privacy legislation.

But "privacy" is an ambiguous notion. In the liberal tradition, it is an individualistic value protecting citizens from intrusion into a realm of autonomy. A feminist critique suggests that the social utility of privacy is to exclude certain issues from the public realm. Sociologists suggest that privacy is about identity management, while political economists suggest that the most salient privacy issue is the use of personal information to normalize and rationalize populations according to the needs of capital.
While PETs have been developed for use by individual consumers, recently developers are focusing on the business to business market, where demand is stoked by the existence of new privacy regulations. These new laws tend to operationalize privacy in terms of "personally identifiable information." The new generation of PETs reflect and reify that definition. This, in turn, has implications for the everyday understandings of privacy and the constitution of identity and social life.

In particular, this socio-technical practice may strengthen the ability of data holders to rationalize populations and create self-serving social categories. At the same time, they may permit individuals to negotiate these categories outside of panoptic vision. They may also encourage public discussion and awareness of these created social categories."

The Influence of Policy Regimes on the Development and Social Implications of Privacy Enhancing Technologies


 
 
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