Harvard University
Computer Science Colloquium Series
33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Colloquium
Peer-to-fear: The next generation of privacy problems
Jonathan Zittrain
Oxford University
Oxford Internet Institute
Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial
Legal Studies at Harvard Law School
http://www.jz.org/
MONDAY, April 16, 2007
4:00PM
Maxwell Dworkin G115
(Refreshments at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area)
Abstract
Privacy issues arising from government and corporate sources are
genuinely interesting and important. But they are dwarfed by a series of
threats to privacy that do not fit the standard analytic privacy
template. They come from the sorts of Web 2.0 activity that is usually
thought of as individually empowering. The generative internet has drawn
upon three ingredients to create a new form of privacy problem: cheap
sensors, peer production, and reputation systems. These problems arise
at the technical layer in Internet and PC security, and at the content
layer in ventures such as Wikipedia, Flickr, and Facebook. Effective
solutions for these issues may have more in common with solutions to
other generative problems than those associated with the decades-old
informational privacy analytic template.
Host: Professor Michael Smith
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