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Re: Search Engines and ISPs: The Law is the Law?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:47:33 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Peter Harkins <ph () malaprop org> Date: April 23, 2007 9:37:37 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Search Engines and ISPs: The Law is the Law? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 For IP. Michael Zimmer wrote:
The problem with the positioning of these kinds of products is that (a) it normalizes the collection of personal data, and (b) by seeing statements from Google like "You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time," users are misled into thinking that activity they remove from their web history is actually being removed from Google's servers altogether (rather than just from this user interface to the data).
Funny you should mention it; Amazon's already attempted to patent that: A Tag's "undisplayable" flag may be used, for example, to allow users to effectively remove events from their viewable event histories. For example, the web site system 30 may provide anapplication 38 and associated user interface through which users can
view and search their respective event histories, and "delete" selected events from such histories. When a user deletes a particular event (such as particular search query submission orbrowse node access), the corresponding event object is marked by the
event history server 32 as "undisplayable" to prevent the user from viewing the associated event, but remains accessible to clients of the event history server 32.http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser? Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO% 2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220050033803%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/ 20050033803&RS=DN/20050033803
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- Search Engines and ISPs: The Law is the Law? David Farber (Apr 21)
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- Re: Search Engines and ISPs: The Law is the Law? David Farber (Apr 21)
- Re: Search Engines and ISPs: The Law is the Law? David Farber (Apr 24)