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China’s Pragmatic Privacy Law beyond APEC: Does Generational Culture Matter?  By Cheryl L. Brown   Associate Professor  Department of Political Science  University of North Carolina at Charlotte  [email protected]  Paper Draft 1  Please do not quote without permission    Abstract     Culture and tradition remain significant influences  in China’s conception of privacy and  implementation of data protection laws.  At the sam e time, the National People’s  Congress’ initiation of privacy protection consider ation reveals the prospect of evolving  laws emphasizing protection of data privacy based o n domestic and international  developments.  Although a growing literature focuse s on Internet filtering and social  networking mining, this paper will examine five fac tors influencing national and  international perspectives of China’s approach to p rivacy and data protection: (1) privacy  concerns of RFID technology of China’s second-gener ation national identification card  (2) personal data leaks of consumer information by  banks, insurance companies, and real  estate companies as China seeks to build consumer t rust in the modern banking and  financial system; (3) data protection for citizens  of countries engaged with China across  borders in electronic commerce and outsourcing; (4)  privacy compatibility with  multinational and regional organizations in a soft  power era; and (5) the changing  leadership generations with backgrounds in the “sof t sciences” of  history, economics,  management, business, journalism, and law.  These f actors may offer useful comparisons  for addressing the convergence of an international  framework for privacy laws and data  protection.                                                        1 This paper draft was originally submitted to the I nformation Privacy Law Scholars Conference, June  2010.  The author is currently revising the paper.  2      […]

China’s Pragmatic Privacy Law beyond APEC: Does Generational Culture Matter?  By Cheryl L. Brown   Associate Professor  Department of Political Science  University of North Carolina at Charlotte  [email protected]  Paper Draft 1  Please do not quote without permission    Abstract     Culture and tradition remain significant influences  in China’s conception of privacy and  implementation of data protection laws.  At the sam e time, the National People’s  Congress’ initiation of privacy protection consider ation reveals the prospect of evolving  laws emphasizing protection of data privacy based o n domestic and international  developments.  Although a growing literature focuse s on Internet filtering and social  networking mining, this paper will examine five fac tors influencing national and  international perspectives of China’s approach to p rivacy and data protection: (1) privacy  concerns of RFID technology of China’s second-gener ation national identification card  (2) personal data leaks of consumer information by  banks, insurance companies, and real  estate companies as China seeks to build consumer t rust in the modern banking and  financial system; (3) data protection for citizens  of countries engaged with China across  borders in electronic commerce and outsourcing; (4)  privacy compatibility with  multinational and regional organizations in a soft  power era; and (5) the changing  leadership generations with backgrounds in the “sof t sciences” of  history, economics,  management, business, journalism, and law.  These f actors may offer useful comparisons  for addressing the convergence of an international  framework for privacy laws and data  protection.                                                        1 This paper draft was originally submitted to the I nformation Privacy Law Scholars Conference, June  2010.  The author is currently revising the paper.  2      […]

  THE BOUNDARIES OF PRIVACY HARM    M. Ryan Calo *   A BSTRACT     This  Essay  describes  the  outer  boundaries  and  core  properties  of  privacy  harm, an important, unique, but chronically under-t heorized injury.  I argue  that  the  vast  majority  of  privacy  harms  fall  into  j ust  two  categories.    The  subjective  category  of  privacy  harm  is  the  unwanted   perception  of  observation.    This  category  describes  unwelcome  men […]

1 PRESERVING IDENTITIES: PROTECTING PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION THROUGH ENHANCED PRIVACY POLICIES AND LAWS by Robert Sprague* and Corey Ciocchetti** “The common law has always recognized a man’s house as his castle . . . . Shall the courts thus close the front entrance to constituted authority, and open wide the back door to idle or […]

1 Understanding Privacy Threats Online: Developing Agency Expertise about Privacy -Eroding Practices by Frank Pasquale Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School Visiting Fellow, Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy Abstract Privacy needs to be at the center of internet policymaking. Yet before they promulgate substantive rules, key administrators must develop an institutional competence for […]

SECTION 2 IN A WEB 2.0 WORLD: AN EXPANDED VISION OF RELEVANT PRODUCT MARKETS PAMELA JONES H ARBOUR TARA ISA K OSLOV * Section 2 enforcement by the U.S. antitrust authorities is back—at least, that is what the antitrust enforcers themselves have been saying. 1 An examination of Section 2 enforcement principles could not be […]

1 Usable Ethics: Practical Considerations for Respons ibly Conducting Research with Social Trace Data Jana Diesner, Chieh-Li Chin ( [email protected] , [email protected] ) The iSchool at Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Draft, Nov 2015 1. Introduction and Problem Statement Over the last decade, research on the privacy of us er information has shown […]

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Emerging Ethics Norms in Social Media Research 1 Katie Shilton College of Information Studies University of Maryland, College Park Defining ethical practices for research using data from digital and social media communities is an ongoing challenge. This paper argues that we should learn from practice: that researchers working with open and online datasets are converging […]

Emerging Ethics Norms in Social Media Research 1 Katie Shilton College of Information Studies University of Maryland, College Park Defining ethical practices for research using data from digital and social media communities is an ongoing challenge. This paper argues that we should learn from practice: that researchers working with open and online datasets are converging […]