The 3rd International Conference Security in Pervasive Computing will held in York, UK, April 19 - 20, 2006
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The EU- Working Party for data protection is launching an investigation into the processing of personal data in the private health insurance sector early March 2006.
A survey commissioned by Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff, shows that New Zealanders are concern for invasion of privacy, particularly by businesses.
Report February 2006 UMR privacy survey result
Jerry Kang is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law.
On communications, Professor Kang has published on the topics of cyberspace privacy, pervasive computing, social cognitive analyses of mass media policy, and cyber-race (the techno-social construction of race in cyberspace).
Kang is member of the Institute of Pervasive Computing and Society--an interdisciplinary initative at UCLA to examine the social, ethical, and legal issues surrounding the emergent technology of pervasive computing.
About this subject: "Pervasive Computing: Embedding the Public Sphere (with Dana Cuff), 62 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. (2005) :: final version @ SSRN
Newsweek International publishes this article
Why Privacy Won't Matter
by David H. Freedman
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft desperately want to know every last thing about what you do, say and buy. Here's how they'll do it—and why we'll let them.
"In Spying with Maps, I look at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of fields such as military intelligence, law enforcement, market research, and traffic engineering"
Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy it's a book by Mark Monmonier, a university professor and writer at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
"Privacy and medical information on the Internet" paper by Steven B Nelson
Glen Urban is a professor of Marketing at the Center for eBusiness at MIT.
He has been a member of the MIT Sloan School of Management faculty since 1966 and Dean at the school from 1993 to 1998. Dr. Urban is a leading educator, prize-winning researcher specializing in marketing and new product development, entrepreneur, and author.
Dr. Urban is author of the ground-breaking work "Don't Just Relate - Advocate!: A Blueprint for Profit in the Era of Customer Power," Wharton School Publishing, 2004 that launched the field of "trust-based" marketing.
More papers by Urban.
Last December, European Commission (Enterprise & Industry DG / Information Society & Media DG) organised this conference in Cambridge (UK).
e-Business. The Way Forward
Co-hosted by the East of England Development Agency and sponsored by the UK Department of Trade & Industry (DTI).
Now presentations are available.
Panel 2 legal aspects and future visions
More about economics and privacy:
Luc R. Wathieu is a associate professor at Harvard Business School, he is working on marketing and privacy concerns, prices, consumer habituation...
Marketing and Privacy Concerns
" When finer consumer information becomes available, competing firms sometimes target consumers too finely, disrupting scale economies prematurely. This leads to xcessive product variety or to the wasteful exclusion of certain consumer types. This aper suggests that privacy concerns emerge in anticipation of these effects. This interpretation of the privacy issue yields a number of counter-intuitive but realistic implications regarding the identity and behavior of concerned consumers. Market intermediaries and consumer communities that aggregate diverse consumer types to coarsen market access provide the most adequate resolution of privacy concerns. "Paper about "Marketing and Privacy Concerns." Marketing Science (under second review).
The First International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT in cooperation with IAITL
April 30 - May 3, 2006, Elysée Hotel AG Hamburg.
Organizers: Sylvia Kierkegaard and Georg Krog
Honorary chairman: Yves Poullet. Ph.D. in Law and graduated in Philosophy, is professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Namur and Liège, Belgium (FUNDP & Ulg)
Price Discrimination is merely a technical term meaning differentiation in price to increase efficiency. Example: Airlines and other travel companies use differentiated pricing regularly, as they sell travel products and services simultaneously to different market segments.
If companies have more information about their customers, they could maximize their income.
To learn more about price discrimination & privacy.
Professor Andrew Odlyzko, Digital Technology Center Director. University of Minnesota
Paper by A. Odlyzko "Privacy, Economics, and Price Discrimination on the Internet"
Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo: Emergent Chaos is a privacy & security blog
Paper by Luc R. Wathieu "Privacy, Exposure, and Price Discrimination"
EFF "Price Customization"
Internet, Information society, whatever they call it, it is changing (almost) everything.
I suppose that with these changes are becoming more and more important things like privacy, reputation. . . .
How people interact?
Andrei Hagiu, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and who works on a new field of business research that explores the dynamics of multi-sided markets. “as platforms that serve two or more distinct groups of customers who value each other's participation” One example EBay
About what customers think about your business there is a interesting paper at Accenture "Sentiment Monitoring Services"
At Technology Review there is a special report on Data Security & Privacy, sponsored by IBM.
CONTENT
The People Own Ideas! By Lawrence Lessig
The Creators Own Ideas By Richard Epstein
The Password Is Fayleyure
The Problem with File Sharing
In Google We Trust
and more. . .
New technologies will increasingly enable companies to collect more and more information.
Imagine: RFID, ubiquitous computing, sensors, google. . . .
and you can lose your customers so easy if you don't respect their privacy. . .
Accenture Tecnology Labs is actively investigating how these four factors.
The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), the nation's leading information technology (IT) trade association has just released its 16th Annual Federal CIO Survey "Ten Years After Clinger-Cohen: Looking Back, Looking Forward"
There is a grate quote by Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve “In today’s world where ideas are increasingly displacing the physical in the production of economic value, competition for reputation becomes a significant driving force, propelling our economy forward. Manufactured goods often can be evaluated before the completion of a transaction. Service providers, on the other hand, can offer only their reputation”
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Reputation Wikipedia definition
Reputation management Wikipedia definition
Reputation Research Networks Research network
“Strategic Reputation Risk Management” by Judy Larkin Book
Opinity - Because your reputation matters¡- Online social network
Reputation by Dingledine, Freedman, Molnar, Parkes and Syverson Paper
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine interviews Jim Dempsey, policy director at The Center for Democracy & Technology(CDT).
At MIT World there is available this conference by Williams J. Mitchell, who is professor at the Media Lab. Formerly Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, he also directs the Media Lab's Smart Cities research group.
Mr. Mitchell published last september this book
"Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City"
2005, The MIT Press
Guardian Interview
Since 1865 when Mendel traced the inheritance patterns of certain traits in pea plants and showed that they could be described mathematically, genetics has not stop.
In 2003, Human Genoma Project announced that the project had been completed.
"By 2010, it is likely that predictive genetic tests will be available for as many as a dozen common conditions, enabling individuals to take preventive steps to reduce their risks of developing such disorders" The Boston Globe July 17, 2005
and an affordable price.
There are several centers who work on privacy & genetics:
The Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology at the University of Washington identifies and analyzes the impact of technological change on law, and examines the roles of innovation, incentives and competition in transforming domestic and global markets and legal institutions.
The Shidler Center publishes a Journal of Law, Commerce + Technology: where we can read an article about RFID & Legal Issues: "Whe small technology is a big deal: legal issues arising from business use of RFID" by Zachary Hostetter.
BusinessWeek publishes a report about social networks:
Social Networks: More Bubble Than Profit?
and
Big Brother Is Reading Your Blog
by Olga Kharif
These days, social networkers are concerned about protecting their privacy, not only from predators and scam artists, but from nosy employers and campus authorities
