Communication Ethics

Addendum to privacy chapter

Here's something from Slashdot I ought to work into my Privacy chapter to further drive home the point that privacy invasions, no matter how harmless they seem, can cause real economic damage to you: Privacy appears to be declining largely in order to facilitate differential pricing... The thesis of this paper is that what really motivates commercial organizations... is the growing incentive to price discriminate, coupled with the increasing ability to price discriminate.

Chapter 8 - Privacy

Chapter 8 - Privacy has been posted. Privacy is found to be primarily a communication issue, and thus amenable to treatment in this framework. The next couple of chapters will be delayed (*cough* *cough*, oh yeah, I've really stuck to weekly here); I had an insight into the next chapter that will really clean it up, and for the chapter after that I just figured out how to write it this week, so there's a lot of work to do on it.

Chapter 7 - A New Model for Copyright

Today's chapter focuses on a better way to model communication for copyright purposes then the expression model. This will come in very handy later. As you might have guessed, I still wasn't necessarily done with the essay when I started to post it; I knew I'd never finish. I actually just figured out how to phrase the final point a few days ago. I'm a little relieved, since it's been eluding me for about three years now.