Being Forgotten on the Internet
Alexander Novotny
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Alexander Novotny, Being Forgotten on the Internet (2016), Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 9783832587994
Beschreibung / Abstract
The boundless long-term retention of information about people's lives on the world wide web jeopardizes their reputation and deprives them of a fresh start. Mr. Costeja González' reputation, for example, was damaged by twelve year-old newspaper articles on Google attesting him a poor creditworthiness (ECJ C-131/12). His case triggered a public discussion about creating a ``forgetting Internet'' and counteracting the ``age of everlasting personal data retention.''
This book argues that the world wide web endangers people's reputation by presenting them and their online profiles short of temporal context. Drawing on Heidegger's and Ricoeur's philosophy of time, Walzer's spheres of justice, Solove's visionary pragmatism for privacy and Nissenbaum's theory of privacy as contextual integrity, the book proposes safeguarding the ``temporal contextual integrity'' of personal information online. The author suggests designing web user interfaces for making the passage of time within people's online representations prominent. With time-sensitive interfaces, employers start ignoring job seekers' obsolete reputation in online labor markets. Technology requirements for a ``forgetting Internet'' are discussed.
This book argues that the world wide web endangers people's reputation by presenting them and their online profiles short of temporal context. Drawing on Heidegger's and Ricoeur's philosophy of time, Walzer's spheres of justice, Solove's visionary pragmatism for privacy and Nissenbaum's theory of privacy as contextual integrity, the book proposes safeguarding the ``temporal contextual integrity'' of personal information online. The author suggests designing web user interfaces for making the passage of time within people's online representations prominent. With time-sensitive interfaces, employers start ignoring job seekers' obsolete reputation in online labor markets. Technology requirements for a ``forgetting Internet'' are discussed.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- BEGINN
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Oblivion of PI and the right to be forgotten
- 1.2 Traditional privacy: secrecy and control of PI
- 1.3 Challenging secrecy and control of PI
- 1.4 A third route: temporal contextual integrity of PI
- 1.5 Overview of the research methods
- 1.6 Contributions
- 1.7 Outline
- 2 A theoretical framework of privacy as temporal contextual integrity
- 2.1 Contextual integrity of retained PI and justice
- 2.2 The philosophy of time for retained PI
- 2.3 Basic axioms of temporal contextual integrity
- 2.4 Preserving privacy by PI†™s temporal contextual integrity
- 2.5 Tensions of PI†™s temporal contextual integrity with privacy
- 2.6 Pragmatic uses of the framework
- 3 Review of technologies for drawing temporal boundaries on the web
- 3.1 Related work
- 3.2 Needs for drawing temporal boundaries in online services
- 3.3 Temporal boundary technologies in the services
- 3.4 Discussion
- 4 Designing temporal interface signs for drawing visible temporal boundaries
- 4.1 The current state of temporal interface signs in user interfaces
- 4.2 Exploring the design space
- 4.3 A catalog of temporal interface signs
- 4.4 Implementing temporal interface signs into a prototype SNS interface
- 4.5 Discussion
- 5 Temporal contextual integrity in online recruiting
- 5.1 Applying the framework to online crowdsourcing labor markets†™ reputation systems
- 5.2 Online survey with reputation system users
- 5.3 An experiment on encouraging conformance to norms of being forgotten by drawing visible temporal boundaries
- 6 Conclusions and future work
- 6.1 Safeguarding PI†™s temporal contextual integrity is essential for individual human development
- 6.2 Designing information systems wisely
- 6.3 Future research directions
- Appendices
- Appendix A – Analysis of user oblivion needs and temporal boundary technologies
- Appendix B – Focus group discussions and expert consultations
- Appendix C – Think-aloud evaluation of the SNS interface prototype
- Appendix D – Materials of the online survey
- Appendix E – Materials of the experimental study
- References