Internet agents: spiders, wanderers, brokers, and bots
Internet agents: spiders, wanderers, brokers, and bots
Communications of the ACM
UAHCI'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Universal access in human computer interaction: coping with diversity
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The positive qualities of the Internet--anonymity, openness, andreproducibility have added a new ethical dimension to the privacydebate. This paper describes a new and significant way in whichprivacy is violated. A type of personal information, called’virtual information‘ is described and the effectiveness oftechniques to protect this type of information is examined.This examination includes a discussion of technical approachesand professional standards as ways to address this violation of’virtual information.‘