Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing

Mayer-Schoenberger, Viktor

doi:10.2139/ssrn.976541

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“…If a user removes content from his/her profile that may be deemed offensive or was posted as a momentary emotional response, or even if the user deletes the entire profile, personal content may still reside in (incremental) archives for a long time (cf. [27]). …”

Section: Motivation Related Work and Comparison To Impecsmentioning

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Privacy-enhanced sharing of personal content on the web

Mannan

Oorschot

2008

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web

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Publishing personal content on the web is gaining increased popularity with dramatic growth in social networking websites, and availability of cheap personal domain names and hosting services. Although the Internet enables easy publishing of any content intended to be generally accessible, restricting personal content to a selected group of contacts is more difficult. Social networking websites partially enable users to restrict access to a selected group of users of the same network by explicitly creating a "friends' list." While this limited restriction supports users' privacy on those (few) selected websites, personal websites must still largely be protected manually by sharing passwords or obscure links. Our focus is the general problem of privacy-enabled web content sharing from any user-chosen web server. By leveraging the existing "circle of trust" in popular Instant Messaging (IM) networks, we propose a scheme called IM-based Privacy-Enhanced Content Sharing (IMPECS) for personal web content sharing. IMPECS enables a publishing user's personal data to be accessible only to her IM contacts. A user can put her personal web page on any web server she wants (vs. being restricted to a specific social networking website), and maintain privacy of her content without requiring site-specific passwords. Our prototype of IMPECS required only minor modifications to an IM server, and PHP scripts on a web server. The general idea behind IMPECS extends beyond IM and IM circles of trust; any equivalent scheme, (ideally) containing pre-arranged groups, could similarly be leveraged.

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Section: Motivation Related Work and Comparison To Impecsmentioning

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“…IMPECS also prevents large-scale web crawlers and auto-indexers from tagging personal data and pictures (see e.g. [4,27]). However, malicious IM contacts of a publishing user may of course re-post the user's private content to a public web forum, and we are not proposing any form of digital rights management (DRM) control.…”

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Privacy-enhanced sharing of personal content on the web

Mannan

Oorschot

2008

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web

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“…Social implications of permanent data traces have been studied by Friedman and Resnick ('social cost of cheap pseudonyms') [18], Blanchette and Johnson ('forgetfulness') [19] and lately also by Mayer-Schönberger [20]. Odlyzko [21] has added that costs of a lack of privacy can also materialise in supplier rents through better possibilities for price discrimination.…”

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Conformity or Diversity: Social Implications of Transparency in Personal Data Processing

Böhme

2008

Managing Information Risk and the Economics of Security

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Abstract. Consider the hypothetical situation of a society with virtually unconstrained storage and exchange of personal information and shameless exploitation thereof for decision making, for example in contract negotiation. In this paper we develop a stylised formal model to tackle the question if public knowledge about how exactly personal information is used in decision making changes aggregate behaviour. Simulation results suggest a slightly positive relationship between transparency and conformity, i.e., people tend to behave alike. This has implications on the common conjecture that collection and processing of personal information is tolerable as long as transparency is warranted.

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“…Blanchette et al [21] argue that limited retention is necessary to maintain in what they call social forgetfulness; people should have the opportunity "to move on beyond one's past and start afresh". Mayer-Schöberger [69] suggests "that we should revive our society's capacity to forget"; humans have always been forced to carefully consider the trade-offs of retention and deletion. The price of remembering everything was simply too high.…”

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“…Although the cost in terms of resources has been drastically decreased thanks to the digital age, the new cost can be high if "the lack of forgetting may prompt us to speak less freely and openly". Mayer-Schöberger [69] proposes therefore to associate data with meta-data specifying the retention period of the data, enforcing the automatic deletion of it, making forgetting the default instead of remembering. This is not the only reason why limited retention is so important.…”

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Privacy-aware data management by means of data degradation : making private data less sensitive over time

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Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing

Cited by 24 publications

References 5 publications

Privacy-enhanced sharing of personal content on the web

Privacy-enhanced sharing of personal content on the web

Conformity or Diversity: Social Implications of Transparency in Personal Data Processing

Privacy-aware data management by means of data degradation : making private data less sensitive over time

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