Information accountability

By D. Weitzner, Harold Abelson, Tim Berners-Lee, Joan Feigenbaum, James A. Hendler, Gerald J. Sussman. CACM, 2008

451 citations recorded by the source corpus.

With access control and encryption no longer capable of protecting privacy, laws and systems are needed that hold people accountable for the misuse of personal information, whether public or secret.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/43f3eb639e8fc082072d389a1683dbded7771e5d

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Artificial Intelligence

1. Deborah Estrin
2. Surya Nepal
3. Quan Z. Sheng
4. Vangelis Metsis
5. Sasank Reddy

In Computer Science Applications

1. Deborah Estrin
2. Sasank Reddy

Citations in the corpus

• IoT Middleware: A Survey on Issues and Enabling Technologies (2017, background): “The accountability refers to the property that enables auditing of IoT systems for significant events and analyze log to associate the behaviors of entities to such events [63].”
• PEIR, the personal environmental impact report, as a platform for participatory sensing systems research (2009, background): “”) alerts users as to who is viewing their data, and can help users hold friends accountable for shared location data [44].”
• The role of privacy fatigue in online privacy behavior (2018, background): “…for privacy preferences (P3P) provides users with options to select their own preferences for privacy settings, but they are often overwhelmed by the choices available (Weitzner et al., 2008), and even have difficulty understanding the privacy management system itself (Schermer et al., 2014).”