Creating a Forgetting Internet: How to Leverage Temporal Contextual Integrity for Enabling a New Start on the Web

Ort: Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien D2.2.094 am 10. Jänner 2017 Startet um 17:00 Endet um 20:00

Veranstalter Institut für Management Information Systems

Staatspreis 2016: Research Talk of WU's Award Winner Dr. Alexander Novotny

Research talk:

Creating a Forgetting Internet: How to Leverage Temporal Contextual Integrity for Enabling a New Start on the Web

The boundless long-term retention of information about people’s lives on the world wide web jeopardizes their reputation and deprives them of a fresh start. Mr. Costeja González’ reputation, for example, was damaged by twelve year-old newspaper articles on Google attesting him a poor creditworthiness (ECJ C-131/12). His case triggered a public discussion about creating a “forgetting Internet” and counteracting the “age of everlasting personal data retention.” The presented research indicates that the time dimension is hardly visible on the web which is endangering people’s online reputation. Drawing on Nissenbaum’s theory of privacy as contextual integrity, safeguarding the “temporal contextual integrity” of personal information online is proposed as a remedy. Ways to design temporal contextual integrity into web user interfaces for making the aspect of time better visible in online biographies are presented. Using these interfaces in an experimental study about online labor markets reveals that employers are more likely to ignore job seekers’ obsolete reputation and to hire them eventually.

Short biography of Alexander Novotny:

Alexander Novotny is an information privacy and security specialist. He works as an information security risk manager in the energy utilities industry. Moreover, Alexander is a lecturer at the Institute for Management Information Systems at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Alexander’s research interests focus on electronic privacy and security as well as valuebased and ethical system design. Research topics include the concept of time for introducing a “Forgetting Internet” and balancing markets for personal information with privacy.

Alexander holds a doctoral degree in the economic and social sciences with a major in business information systems from Vienna University of Economics and Business. He is a certified CIS information security manager according to ISO 27001 and a certified risk manager for information security according to ISO 27005. Moreover, he served as a standardization expert for digital marketing and privacy at the Austrian Standards Institute. He was awarded the appreciation prize of the Austrian ministry for science and research and the Award of Excellence – Austrian national price for the best dissertations.



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