Who owns the data collected about you? (Novak, Sinha, Gandy)

• 'Lists'- bought and sold about who- how detailed?
• Privacy as a commodity- can you afford it?
• Encryption; Anonymous re-mailers; Anonymous re-dialers
• Privacy as a Social Construction- What is the laws?
• Privacy Laws- For example, your email is supposed to be private
• Access Laws- Should you get access to information stored about you

An Information Age?

• 'Information Redlining' - What is your zip code?
• 'Information Ghettos' - How to find out what you don't know-
• 'Ignorance Explosion' - Relentless expansion of information with little knowledge of how to put it together.
• The power of remote surveillance
• Satellite Surveillance of national resources
• International Search for new medicines- who gets paid?

Virtual/Intellectual Property- what can you own?

• What is exclusively yours in vast shared space?
• Trademark Problems: Roadrunner.com or mtv.com
• What if the material is re-organized.
• Compilation Copyrights Problems- owning what people publish on your system
• When should information be public or private
• Private - getting paid to produce information
• Public- value in shared information- libraries, decisions in democracy need good information; public needs info to innovate.