http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=12205
Article of Note: The Boundaries of Privacy Harm
July 18, 2010 by Dissent
Ryan Calo has an article on SSRN that may provide food for thought for many readers.
Calo, M. Ryan, The Boundaries of Privacy Harm (July 16, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1641487
Just as a burn is an injury caused by heat, so is privacy harm a unique injury with specific boundaries and characteristics. This Essay describes privacy harm as falling into two related categories. The subjective category of privacy harm is the unwanted perception of observation. This category describes unwelcome mental states—anxiety, embarrassment, fear—that stem from the belief that one is being watched or monitored. Examples include everything from a landlord listening in on his tenants to generalized government surveillance.
The objective category of privacy harm is the unanticipated or coerced use of information concerning a person against that person. These are negative, external actions justified by reference to personal information. Examples include identity theft, the leaking of classified information that reveals an undercover agent, and the use of a drunk-driving suspect’s blood as evidence against him.
The subjective and objective categories of privacy harm are distinct but related. Just as assault is the apprehension of battery, so is the unwanted perception of observation largely an apprehension of information-driven injury. The categories represent, respectively, the anticipation and consequence of a loss of control over personal information.
The approach offers several advantages. It uncouples privacy harm from privacy violations, demonstrating that no person need commit a privacy violation for privacy harm to occur (and vice versa). It creates a “limiting principle” capable of revealing when another value—autonomy or equality, for instance—is more directly at stake. It also creates a “rule of recognition” that permits the identification of a privacy harm when no other harm is apparent. Finally, the approach permits the sizing and redress of privacy harm in novel ways.
The full article is available as a free download from SSRN.
Implications, implications...
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=12194
A Good Day for Email Privacy: A Court Takes Back its Earlier, Bad Ruling in Rehberg v. Paulk
July 18, 2010 by Dissent
Paul Ohm writes:
In March, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the court that sets federal law for Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, ruled in an opinion in a case called Rehberg v. Paulk that people lacked a reasonable expectation of privacy in the content of email messages stored with an email provider. This meant that the police in those three states were free to ignore the Fourth Amendment when obtaining email messages from a provider. In this case, the plaintiff alleged that the District Attorney had used a sham subpoena to trick a provider to hand over the plaintiff’s email messages. The Court ruled that the DA was allowed to do this, consistent with the Constitution.
I am happy to report that today, the Court vacated the opinion and replaced it with a much more carefully reasoned, nuanced opinion.
Most importantly, the Eleventh Circuit no longer holds that “A person also loses a reasonable expectation of privacy in emails, at least after the email is sent to and received by a third party.” nor that “Rehberg’s voluntary delivery of emails to third parties constituted a voluntary relinquishment of the right to privacy in that information.” These bad statements of law have effectively been erased from the court reporters.
Read more on Freedom to Tinker.
[From the article:
The Court no longer strips email messages of protection, but it didn't go further and affirmatively hold that email users possess a Fourth Amendment right to privacy in email.
… The EFF (which represents the plaintiff) is much more disappointed in the amended opinion than I.
Some day the US will rise to the levels of the third world!
WSJ's Mossberg Calls For a Tougher Broadband Plan
Posted by timothy on Sunday July 18, @07:21PM
"Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walt Mossberg thinks the FCC's national broadband plan is long overdue, but he criticized it for being vague on the details and too focused on expanding access into rural areas. Mossberg pointed out that what passes for broadband in the US wouldn't even qualify as such in many other developed countries. He also noted that Americans pay more per unit of broadband speed than our competitors. He called on the government to devote time and resources to making sure Americans have the broadband access they need to stay competitive in the 21st century global economy."
Rupert looks good so far! I'm sure there is some local content that is available only in the Times – but is that going to be worth 2 pounds per week?
The Times loses 66 percent traffic after raising pay wall
Charging for access to its Internet content appears to be working out better than expected for UK broadsheet The Times, despite seeing its online readership plummet by two thirds since raising a pay wall on July 2 of this year.
… which the publication may take as favourable considering traffic had been expected to drop by as much as 90 percent.
… The Times is presently offering an introductory access charge of just one pound via Times+, which will stretch for 30 days. After that offer expires, the publication’s online arm plans to charge visitors a pound per day for access or two pounds for an entire week.
How to do this without encouraging students to use their phones constantly in the classroom?
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Create Augmented Reality Layers Without Coding
Hoppala is a new augmented reality layer creation service that launched late last week. Creating an augmented reality layer is a essentially a drag and drop process when using Hoppala. Watch the video below to learned more about creating augmented reality content using Hoppala.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r8eORFwFEo&feature=player_embedded
Applications for Education
Hoppala could become a great tool for students to use to develop augmented walking tours of their communities. Augmented reality layers could also be developed to complement the content of stories that students write. For example, if students write a story based in their communities they could then create a physical walk-through of that story supplemented with augmented reality layers.
Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:
Augmented Reality in Plain English
ZooBurst - 3D Augmented Reality Books
For all the Psych majors taking technology courses...
http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/hierarchy-of-internet-needs/
Maslow's Hierarchy of Internet Needs
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