Anonymity and software agents: an interdisciplinary challenge

  • Authors:
  • Frances Brazier;Anja Oskamp;Corien Prins;Maurice Schellekens;Niek Wijngaards

  • Affiliations:
  • Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems, Faculty of Sciences Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Computer and Law Institute, Faculty of Law Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;TILT, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society, Faculty of Law Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands;TILT, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society, Faculty of Law Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands;Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems, Faculty of Sciences Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence and Law
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Software agents that play a role in E-commerce and E-government applications involving the Internet often contain information about the identity of their human user such as credit cards and bank accounts. This paper discusses whether this is necessary: whether human users and software agents are allowed to be anonymous under the relevant legal regimes and whether an adequate interaction and balance between law and anonymity can be realised from both the perspective of Computer Systems and the perspective of Law.