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What do they know about me? Contents and Concerns of Online Behavioral Profiles
Data aggregators collect large amount of information about individual users
and create detailed online behavioral profiles of individuals. Behavioral
profiles benefit users by improving products and services. However, they have
also raised concerns regarding user privacy, transparency of collection
practices and accuracy of data in the profiles. To improve transparency, some
companies are allowing users to access their behavioral profiles. In this work,
we investigated behavioral profiles of users by utilizing these access
mechanisms. Using in-person interviews (n=8), we analyzed the data shown in the
profiles, elicited user concerns, and estimated accuracy of profiles. We
confirmed our interview findings via an online survey (n=100). To assess the
claim of improving transparency, we compared data shown in profiles with the
data that companies have about users. More than 70% of the participants
expressed concerns about collection of sensitive data such as credit and health
information, level of detail and how their data may be used. We found a large
gap between the data shown in profiles and the data possessed by companies. A
large number of profiles were inaccurate with as much as 80% inaccuracy. We
discuss implications for public policy management.Comment: in Ashwini Rao, Florian Schaub, and Norman Sadeh What do they know
about me? Contents and Concerns of Online Behavioral Profiles (2014) ASE
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Geoscience after IT: Part L. Adjusting the emerging information system to new technology
Coherent development depends on following widely used standards that respect our vast legacy of existing entries in the geoscience record. Middleware ensures that we see a coherent view from our desktops of diverse sources of information. Developments specific to managing the written word, map content, and structured data come together in shared metadata linking topics and information types
New technologies for urban designers: the VENUE project
In this report, we first outline the basic idea of VENUE. This involves developing digital tools froma foundation of geographic information systems (GIS) software which we then apply to urbandesign, a subject area and profession which has little tradition in using such tools. Our project wasto develop two types of tool, namely functional analysis based on embedding models of movementin local environments into GIS based on ideas from the field of space syntax; and secondlyfashioning these ideas in a wider digital context in which the entire range of GIS technologies werebrought to bear at the local scale. By local scale, we mean the representation of urban environmentsfrom about 1: 500 to around 1: 2500
Business Models For Transport eBusiness
In this paper authors are presenting expectations from electronic commerce and its connotations on transport logistics. Based on trends, the relations between the companies in the international transport have to be strengthened using Internet business models. In the paper authors are investigating e-business information models for usage in transportbusiness models, eBusiness, digital economy, transport
CHORUS Deliverable 2.1: State of the Art on Multimedia Search Engines
Based on the information provided by European projects and national initiatives related to multimedia search as well as domains experts that participated in the CHORUS Think-thanks and workshops, this document reports on the state of the art related to multimedia content search from, a technical, and socio-economic perspective.
The technical perspective includes an up to date view on content based indexing and retrieval technologies, multimedia search in the context of mobile devices and peer-to-peer networks, and an overview of current evaluation and benchmark inititiatives to measure the performance of multimedia search engines.
From a socio-economic perspective we inventorize the impact and legal consequences of these technical advances and point out future directions of research
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