[Seth-Trips] Peter Wayner speaking on translucent datbases, Monday,
Stanford [declan@well.com: [Politech] Stanford talk on
Mar. 14: customized Web sites that protect privacy [priv]]
Seth David Schoen
schoen at loyalty.org
Fri Mar 11 21:37:16 PST 2005
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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 00:30:36 -0500
From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
To: politech at politechbot.com
Subject: [Politech] Stanford talk on Mar. 14: customized Web sites that
Peter is a good speaker and a very smart fellow. His site is here:
http://wayner.org/books/
-Declan
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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 at wayner.org>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
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 at wayner.org
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.
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