EAGER: Privacy with Respect to Private Corporations in the 21st Century: Legal and Computer Security Issues

这个项目解决的问题：什么隐私规则应该约束私营公司？它是通过一位了解计算机科学问题的法律的学者和一位了解法律的和政策问题的计算机科学家之间的合作来实现的。贯穿研究的共同主题是目前缺乏商定的社会规范有关隐私，计算机安全和隐私问题之间的相互作用，以及经济动机，往往是理解各种代理人的重要组成部分？行动其目标是促进有关隐私的社会规范的发展，这些规范将同时影响和通报适当技术的发展以及适当的商业惯例和法律。跨学科的方法是实现这一目标的关键;它也是令人惊讶的不寻常：有显着很少的跨学科检查的隐私，有效地结合联合收割机法律的和计算机科学的专业知识。这个项目是弥补这一不足的一个步骤。 这四个目标共同解决了对信息隐私方法的迫切、严重和未满足的需求，这种方法在技术上和法律上都是复杂的。 这项研究将同时影响和通报适当技术和适当法律的发展。

This project addresses the question: What privacy rules should bind private corporations? It does so through a collaboration between a legal scholar knowledgeable about computer science issues and a computer scientist knowledgeable about legal and policy issues. The common themes runningthrough the research are the current lack of agreed social norms concerning privacy, the interplay between computer security and privacy concerns, and the economic motivations that often are an important part of understanding various agents? actions. The goal is to contribute to the development of social norms concerning privacy that will simultaneously shape and inform both the development of appropriate technologies and appropriate business practices and laws. The interdisciplinary approach is essential to achieving this goal; it is also surprisingly unusual: There are remarkably few interdisciplinary examinations of privacy that effectively combine legal and computer science expertise. This project is a step toward remedying this lack. Together, the four aims address the immediate, serious, and unmet need for an approach to information privacy that is at once technically and legally sophisticated. The research will simultaneously shape and inform both the development of appropriate technologies and appropriate laws.