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Searching the Internet: Who's Watching?
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| Date: | November 2, 2005, 7 - 9 p.m. |
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| Organizers: | Larry Hinman, Mike Kalichman, Sara Burke, The Ethics Center |
| Sponsors: | The Center for Ethics in Science & Technology (The Ethics Center) San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD (SDSC) |
| Panelists: | • Lance Cottrell, President and Founder, Anonymizer, Inc • Pam Dixon, Executive Director, World Privacy Forum
• Michael Robertson, Founder and Chairman, Linspire, Inc.• Lawrence Hinman, Director, Values Institute, University of San Diego • Jonathan Pink, Partner, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith See Panelists and Moderator Biographies |
| Moderator: | Michael Kalichman, Director, Research Ethics Program, University of California, San Diego |
| Contact: | Diane Ballard |
| Description: | Search engines play a crucial role in providing access to the World Wide Web, often shaping with an unnoticed hand our travels in cyberspace, shunting us toward some sites and away from others. Often those search engines track and analyze our queries, providing valuable consumer-related information to markets through sophisticated data mining techniques. Search engines are the doorkeepers to the Web—and, as user tracking becomes more sophisticated, its historians as well. What are the ethical and legal responsibilities of search engines? In particular, since search engines are the conduit through which much web traffic flows, what limits—if any—should exist on their efforts to collect both aggregate data and data about specific individuals? In what ways can they use such data? What access does the government have to such data? How much can search engines really find out about users? How much will they be able to determine in the future? Whether you use Google, Yahoo, or some other search engine, think of the profile that could be built about you based on your web searches for the past month—and then join us for this provocative panel discussion! |
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