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Dec. 17, 2010
Internet Privacy
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| Who's watching how you browse the web - and what do they know about you? Aggregators of data can piece together a profile of you from your browsing habits (two such services tagged one member of the Science Friday staff as being interested in Health & Medicine, News, and Science and Mathematics, in a business that involves media, with a penchant for electronics and exotic foods.) How does that tagging happen - and should it? We'll talk about privacy on the internet and calls for a 'do not track' function in web browsers. Plus, how much information do you unknowingly 'leak' about yourself in your daily activities online? |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
Guests
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Ed Felten
Chief Technologist, Federal Trade Commission (starting January 2011)
Director, Center for Information Technology Policy
Professor, Computer Science and Public Affairs
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey -
Craig Wills
Professor, Computer Science Department
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, Massachusetts
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