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

这个项目解决了这样一个问题：什么样的隐私规则应该约束私营公司？它通过了解计算机科学问题的法律学者和了解法律和政策问题的计算机科学家之间的合作来实现这一目标。贯穿研究的共同主题是目前缺乏关于隐私的商定社会规范，计算机安全和隐私问题之间的相互作用，以及经济动机，这通常是理解各种代理人的重要组成部分。行动。目标是促进有关隐私的社会规范的发展，这将同时塑造和告知适当技术和适当商业实践和法律的发展。跨学科方法对实现这一目标至关重要；这也出人意料地不同寻常：很少有跨学科的隐私研究能有效地将法律和计算机科学专业知识结合起来。这个项目是朝着弥补这一缺陷迈出的一步。总之，这四个目标解决了当前迫切的、严重的、尚未满足的需求，即一种既在技术上又在法律上复杂的信息隐私方法。这项研究将同时影响适当技术和适当法律的发展并为其提供信息。

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.