Computers, Privacy & the Constitution

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Background

In the last class on PartFour I proposed the idea of regulating forgetting, forcing data keepers to sunset data. Eben raised First Amendment issues with that proposal, which I think are compelling. However, there may be other sorts of information practices which could be mandated through regulation on government and third parties that may not raise such concerns and that would be useful for providing some protection against losing our identity to those who aggregate information about our lives. Perhaps we can use this space to think of a set of information practices that we would like to see codified, and discuss whether this is a worthwhile exercise at all.
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 One place on the privacy front where government and business don't align so neatly: government is by definition national, corporations aren't. Shouldn't it alarm the CIA that Google might also be working with governments the CIA is collecting intel ON? Might be one way for civil society to make the case to government?

-- MahaAtal - 20 Feb 2009

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Possibly; but the flip side of the coin is tha Google is collecting information on the citizens of other nations too--information the CIA can get with a simple supeona. There's also the issue of where most of the information is actually located. While many of the corporate players are multinational, I'd say a disproportionate number of their server and storage facilities are located within the US. Still, I think the "we can't let you collect this data, our enemies might force you to reveal it" is a better lever than any I can think of right now.

-- AndreiVoinigescu - 20 Feb 2009

 
 
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