Web 2.5: The symbiotic web

International Review of Law, Computers and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-37

  Bernal, P A ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Internet; Personal data; Web 2.5

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649208225     PISSN: 13600869     EISSN: 13646885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13600860903570145     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Not all Web 2.0 sites rely upon user-generated content. Sites such as Hulu supply commercially produced content but still rely on what can be called Web 2.5 data gathering techniques.
2. In his interview on http://www.videojug.com/interview/stephen-fry-web-20#can-you-de.neit (last accessed 18 January 2010).
3. See for example http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/04/google_how_big_is_too_big.html (last accessed 18 January 2010).
4. See T. Berners-Lee and M. Fischetti, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor, 1st paperback edn (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), particularly 169-170.
5. D. van den Poel and W. Buckinx, 'Predicting Online-Purchasing Behaviour', European Journal of Operational Research 166, no. 2 (2005): 557.
6. Discussed in I. Ayres, Super Crunchers: How Anything Can Be Predicted (London: John Murray, 2007).
7. For a summary of the reasons for the changes to the system from Facebook's perspective, see http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7584397130 (last accessed 18 January 2010).
8. See http://www.phorm.com/ (last accessed 18 January 2010)
9. and see http://www.fipr.org/080423phormlegal.pdf (last accessed 18 January 2010) for the Foundation for Information Policy Research's legal analysis of the Phorm 'Webwise' system.
10. See for example http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8135850.stm (last accessed 18 January 2010).
11. See Ayres, note 6, 33-34.
12. As Ayres puts it, '. because of Super Crunching, firms sometimes may be able to make more accurate predictions about how you'll behave than you could ever make yourself.'
13. See C.R. Sunstein, Republic.com 2.0 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).
14. Perhaps his strongest critic is Eugene Volokh, of the Volokh Conspiracy blog (http://www.volokh.com/), but there has also been criticism in print, e.g. D. Hunter, 'Philippic.com', California Law Review 90 (2001): 70.
15. From Peter Steiner's cartoon in the New Yorker, published in 1993.
16. See Directive 95/46/EC, particularly Articles 6 and 7.
17. Most notably in D. Brin, The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1998).