Computers, Privacy & the Constitution

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 Why the Pro-Privacy Movement Isn’t Working: Data-Mining as Entertainment

There is something about privacy that we all understand in an intimate way and yet seem unable to apply broadly. What is it about our conceptions of privacy that can make an individual angry when a companion reads a diary and yet allows that same individual to make a wealth of information available on the internet? Is there a difference, in kind, between the two forums such that a post online is ‘supposed’ to be read while a diary is not? It is hard to imagine a substantive difference between revealing online activity and a diary.

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<		Your essay is interesting. First, I agree that what we need is to try and reveal the danger of online data in a way that gets attention. I tried to do that in a paper I wrote last semester, to perhaps limited effect. I think your idea of a Facebook application is intriguing; of course, the danger is that how do you create something to reveal the danger of data mining without that very tool/app becoming dangerous itself (since it would have to do some mining itself to be effective)? You seem to recognize that danger in saying "These methods of exposure cross ethical and legal lines that should not be traversed ..."
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>		Your essay is interesting. First, I agree that what we need is to try and reveal the danger of online data in a way that gets attention. I tried to do that in a paper I wrote last semester, to perhaps limited effect. I think your idea of a Facebook application is intriguing; of course, the danger is that how do you create something to reveal the danger of data mining without that very tool/app becoming dangerous itself (since it would have to do some mining itself to be effective)? You seem to recognize that danger in saying "These methods of exposure cross ethical and legal lines that should not be traversed ..."
 I am optimistic, however, that we can find a way to communicate the dangers without such a dangerous tool.

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