NDLI: The Scourge of Internet Personal Data Collection

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Aimeur, E. Lafond, M.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. d'Inf. et Rech. Operationnelle, Univ. de Montreal, MontreaI, QC, Canada (Aimeur, E.; Lafond, M.)
Abstract	In today's age of exposure, websites and Internet services are collecting personal data-with or without the knowledge or consent of users. Not only does new technology provide an abundance of methods for organizations to gather and store information, but people are also willingly sharing data with increasing frequency, exposing their intimate lives on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, You tube, My space and others. Moreover, online data brokers, search engines, data aggregators and many other actors of the web are profiling people for various purposes such as the improvement of marketing through better statistics and an ability to predict consumer behaviour. Other less known reasons include understanding the newest trends in education, gathering people's medical history or observing tendencies in political opinions. People who care about privacy use the Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) to protect their data, even though clearly not sufficiently. Indeed, as soon as information is recorded in a database, it becomes permanently available for analysis. Consequently even the most privacy aware users are not safe from the threat of re-identification. On the other hand, there are many people who are willing to share their personal information, even when fully conscious of the consequences. A claim from the advocates of open access information is that the preservation of privacy should not be an issue, as people seem to be confortable in a world where their tastes, lifestyle or personality are digitized and publicly available. This paper deals with Internet data collection and voluntary information disclosure, with an emphasis on the problems and challenges facing privacy nowadays.
Starting Page	821
Ending Page	828
File Size	183822
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769550084
DOI	10.1109/ARES.2013.110
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-09-02
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Privacy Data privacy Internet data collection Social network services Data collection privacy policies privacy open access information Internet Security Positron emission tomography information disclosure
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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