Search Privacy Practices
What if your search queries for the last 18 months were archived along with your IP address? Would anything embarrassing come up, like how many times you searched for your own name or the name of your ex?
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Search results for: “democracy”
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Brief Biographies
A selection of biographical data about some of the leading internet stakeholders who participated in the survey and were willing to take credit for their remarks. This collection of more than 250 brief biographies describing some of the 2006 Survey respondents includes data about some of the top participants who were willing to be quoted […]
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Scenario Four: Transparency builds a better world, even at the expense of privacy…
Prediction and Reactions Prediction: As sensing, storage and communication technologies get cheaper and better, individuals’ public and private lives will become increasingly ‘transparent’ globally. Everything will be more visible to everyone, with good and bad results. Looking at the big picture – at all of the lives affected on the planet in every way possible […]
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Acknowledgments
The author would like to acknowledge the contributions to this study by the following people: Kristen Purcell of Princeton Survey Research Associates designed survey questions that capture the slippery concepts of spyware, adware, and internet security. Lee Rainie, John Horrigan, and Katherine Murray of the Pew Internet Project provided editorial insights and analytical support. The […]
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Looking back, looking forward
Where has the internet fallen short of expectations? Since so many of the experts we contacted were early adopters of the internet, we asked them to think back to their views a decade ago and assess where the use or impact of the internet has fallen short of expectations. Many experts are disappointed that spam […]
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The Predictions and Respondents’ Reactions
Institutions After giving us some personal information in the survey such as their institutional affiliations, the experts were asked the following question, “On a scale of 1-10 with 1 representing no change and 10 representing radical change, please indicate how much change you think the internet will bring to the following institutions or activities in […]
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Part 1. Introduction: The internet and political arguments
There is renewed concern about the issue of “selective exposure” – the possibility people use the internet to tailor the information they receive to their beliefs or interests. Political scientists and campaign practitioners have been concerned for more than a half century about the ways in which people use media to get political information and […]