Academic literature on the topic 'Deletion Privacy'

This chapter focuses on the democratic degradation that may be caused by the apparent replacement of the law of the state with the “law” of the firm when boilerplate is deployed in mass markets. It considers mass-market boilerplate rights deletion schemes and how the widespread use of boilerplate causes democratic degradation; for example, it threatens the distinction between public and private ordering, undermines the rule of law, and erases legal rights. The chapter also examines private law, the main legal infrastructure of the liberal notion of private ordering, and copycat boilerplate. Finally, it discusses technological protection measures (TPMs) and their implications for legal infrastructure, along with measures that might help to make TPMs less problematic from the point of view of the rule of law.

In the world of communications, assurance is sought that (1) a message is not accidentally or deliberately modified in transit by replacement, insertion, or deletion; (2) the message is coming from the source from which it claims to come; (3) the message is protected against unauthorized individuals reading information that is supposed to be kept private; and (4) there is protection against an individual denying that the individual sent or received a message. These assurances are provided through the use of security mechanisms. Chapters IV, V, VI, and VII discuss security mechanisms such as confidentiality, integrity, and access authentication that are used to implement the security services listed above. This chapter covers two types of symmetric encryption: stream ciphers and block ciphers. The theory behind using shift registers as stream ciphers, as well as the DES and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), are also covered in this chapter.

Intellectual disability (ID) constitutes a spectrum of chronic human diseases that occur in about 1-3% of the population. This spectrum includes those precipitated by environmental factors as well as genetic disorders, the latter including some that are relatively prevalent, such as Down syndrome and fragile X syndrome, to rather “private” conditions limited to a few individuals with small chromosomal duplications or deletions. With the assistance of tremendous advances in technology – chromosome microarray analysis and next generation sequencing – it is now possible to arrive at a genetic diagnosis in a significant proportion of individuals with such forms of ID. Clinical evaluation remains the most effective means by which a clinician can prioritize diagnostic approaches to pursue for an individual with ID. This chapter briefly describes the clinical aspects of selected ID syndromes, grouped by the mode of inheritance. The selection was done with the goal of illustrating better known as well as less well known molecular pathways and cellular compartments whose disruption results in ID in association with additional clinical features. These pathways and compartments represent important modules for study using neurobiological methods, and for improved neuronal and neural systems-level understanding of the biology of typical brain function and of the pathophysiology of mental illness.

If you’ve used e-mail for any time at all, you’ve no doubt had your inbox deluged with messages pitching aphrodisiacs, mortgages, junk stocks, pornography, and substances that claim to help you lose weight in your sleep. But don’t despair. Such messages don’t have to be part of the Internet experience. You can avoid them, or certainly reduce the annoyance level, with a few simple measures. Some spammers harvest e-mail addresses from the Internet by using a “spider” (also known as a robot or crawler)—a computer program that creeps through the World Wide Web collecting information you’d prefer to keep private. So the better you are at hiding your address from faceless prowlers, the less spam you will receive. 1. If your Internet Service Provider gives you the choice, create a long, fairly complicated address preceding the @; don’t just use your first name: donquixote@example.com is better than don@example.com. Better still is donquixotedelamancha@example. com. It may be unwieldy, but your friends can always use a nickname—or just click on your address. Happily, longer addresses confuse spammers, who—without having exact user accounts in hand—use a “dictionary attack” to find them, testing the validity of every possible address from lists of common words and names: arline@example.com, barbara@example.com, and so forth. 2. Again, unless some online service makes it mandatory, don’t use your e-mail address as part of a login name or identity. However convenient that might make it when logging in to eBay, it’s equally convenient for spammers. 3. Use a second, public address for nonpersonal mail and for public posting. Create a free account with Hotmail, Yahoo, or Excite, or set up another screen name if you use either AOL or another Internet Service Provider that allows you to have multiple addresses. This keeps your main address private and exposes only your public address to spammers. Check the public account at least occasionally, in case something innocent has come in. Then massively delete the rest. It’s important to learn how your e-mail client (the program you use to send and receive e-mail) handles thorough deleting; in Outlook Express, for example, you have to delete an e-mail you don’t want from your inbox, delete it from the “Deleted” folder, and then compact folders before you are genuinely rid of it.