Re: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Demographics Workshop

Rohit Khare <khare@pest.w3.org> writes:
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>       WORKSHOP ON INTERNET SURVEY METHODOLOGY AND WEB DEMOGRAPHICS

>  5. Are ethical issues raised by this activity, and what might be
>     needed to protect individual rights?

I hope this workshop will also include informed discussion of the  
international _legal_ issues surrounding privacy.  It's no longer  
merely a matter of personal ethics, since some governments have  
begun to codify strong privacy rights.  For example, see the EC  
policy at:

http://cpsr.org/cpsr/privacy/privacy_international/international_laws/ec_data_protection_directive_1995.txt

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Paul Burchard	<burchard@cs.princeton.edu>
``I'm still learning how to count backwards from infinity...''
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