[Air-l] internet research and confidentiality

[jeremy hunsinger]

On Dec 21, 2004, at 5:03 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:

> At 18:40 21/12/2004, Mark D. Johns wrote:
>> At 11:48 AM 12/21/2004, Thomas Koenig wrote:
>>> Blogging, Webpublishing and Usenet posting are demonstrably public 
>>> activities. '

they are clearly and demonstrably public if and only if there is no 
assumption of privacy built into blog.  an assumption of privacy might 
be having to login to view the blog, or being inside a password 
protected system, or being in a community of blogs in which some data 
is only viewable by certain members of the community.  those are case 
that move the blog toward requiring confidentiality because the authors 
have an assumption that some of their information is only for 
friends/family/themselves, etc.   if there are no known access barriers 
to the information, then yes, it is likely public, but we have to take 
care because it will not always be obvious.
jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
www.cddc.vt.edu
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Jeremy Hunsinger
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