Allan Friedman

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I am working on a couple of interesting projects now, one on experimental valuations of privacy, and the other with collaborative learning in network structures. And of course, my qualifying paper is well underway, focusing on reputation systems inside social networks. The 4th Workshop on the Economics of Information Security is coming to Cambridge in June. I am the site admin, conference gopher and will be presenting a paper on "An Empirical Approach to Understanding Privacy". I worked on a report on voting technology from the NSF/Harvard Conference on Voting, Vote Capture and Vote Counting. Here is page for the conference notes that I take at various academic privacy and security events. Radio Frequency ID tags (RFID) enable greater tracking potentials for supply chain management, but have raised alarms among privacy activists. While mobilizing public concern for privacy has benefits, the privacy community's fears are based on RFID technology hype that probably will not come to fruition anytime soon. (.doc, but PDF coming soon) The Broadcast Flag is an attempt to embed policy (strict copyright control) into technology digit al television). I wrote a paper for TPRC highlighting issues and Underlying Motivations in the Broadcast Flag Debate. The final version of the paper was in Telecommunications Policy. What would a Universal ID look like? I took a stab at predicting the future for a Harvard conference . A recent project: designforvalues.org