Peter is a good speaker and a very smart fellow. His site is here: http://wayner.org/books/ -Declan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: talk at Stanford Mar 14: How to Offer Highly Customized Web Sites Without Building a Privacy Nightmare Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:50:55 -0500 From: Peter Wayner <p3@private> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> Declan-- If you think the politech list might be interested in this talk, feel free to pass along the abstract. And if any of the list members are in the area and interested in meeting for a drink, tell them let me know. I'll be in Palo Alto for the week. -Peter p3@private http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/archives/peter_wayner.shtml Peter Wayner March 14, 2005 How to Offer Highly Customized Web Sites Without Building a Privacy Nightmare Monday March 14, 2005 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Room 271 Free and Open to all! Lunch Served Many of the stores and websites defend their huge collections of personal information by arguing that the data is a necessary part of offering personalized, customized service. This assumption is wrong. It is possible to build a database that answers useful questions without keeping any useful information in it. This talk will offer a few demonstrations like: * a library that thwarts deadbeats without tracking reading habits * a store that offers almost all of the features of top flight stores like Amazon without keeping any personal information around * a site where parents can book babysitters without keeping any information that might be useful to stalkers, thieves, kidnappers and worse. Peter Wayner is a programmer and author of 13 books including, _Translucent Databases_, an introduction to building databases that do useful work without storing useful information. A second edition of the book will be published this Fall. _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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