Ethics of personalized information filtering

Online search engines, social media, news sites and retailers are all investing heavily in the development of ever more refined information filtering to optimally tune their services to the specific demands of their individual users and customers. In this position paper we examine the privacy conseq...

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Main Authors: Koene, Ansgar, Perez, Elvira, Carter, Christopher J., Statache, Ramona, Adolphs, Svenja, O’Malley, Claire, Rodden, Tom, McAuley, Derek
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Published: Springer Verlag 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49983/
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author Koene, Ansgar
Perez, Elvira
Carter, Christopher J.
Statache, Ramona
Adolphs, Svenja
O’Malley, Claire
Rodden, Tom
McAuley, Derek
author_facet Koene, Ansgar
Perez, Elvira
Carter, Christopher J.
Statache, Ramona
Adolphs, Svenja
O’Malley, Claire
Rodden, Tom
McAuley, Derek
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description Online search engines, social media, news sites and retailers are all investing heavily in the development of ever more refined information filtering to optimally tune their services to the specific demands of their individual users and customers. In this position paper we examine the privacy consequences of user profile models that are used to achieve this information personalization, the lack of transparency concerning the filtering choices and the ways in which personalized services impact the user experience. Based on these considerations we argue that the Internet research community has a responsibility to increase its efforts to investigate the means and consequences of personalized information filtering.
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spelling nottingham-499832020-05-04T17:19:22Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49983/ Ethics of personalized information filtering Koene, Ansgar Perez, Elvira Carter, Christopher J. Statache, Ramona Adolphs, Svenja O’Malley, Claire Rodden, Tom McAuley, Derek Online search engines, social media, news sites and retailers are all investing heavily in the development of ever more refined information filtering to optimally tune their services to the specific demands of their individual users and customers. In this position paper we examine the privacy consequences of user profile models that are used to achieve this information personalization, the lack of transparency concerning the filtering choices and the ways in which personalized services impact the user experience. Based on these considerations we argue that the Internet research community has a responsibility to increase its efforts to investigate the means and consequences of personalized information filtering. Springer Verlag 2015-10-16 Article PeerReviewed Koene, Ansgar, Perez, Elvira, Carter, Christopher J., Statache, Ramona, Adolphs, Svenja, O’Malley, Claire, Rodden, Tom and McAuley, Derek (2015) Ethics of personalized information filtering. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9089 . pp. 123-132. ISSN 0302-9743 Privacy Transparency Behavior manipulation RRI Filter bubble https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-18609-2_10 doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_10 doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_10
spellingShingle Privacy
Transparency
Behavior manipulation
RRI
Filter bubble
Koene, Ansgar
Perez, Elvira
Carter, Christopher J.
Statache, Ramona
Adolphs, Svenja
O’Malley, Claire
Rodden, Tom
McAuley, Derek
Ethics of personalized information filtering
title Ethics of personalized information filtering
title_full Ethics of personalized information filtering
title_fullStr Ethics of personalized information filtering
title_full_unstemmed Ethics of personalized information filtering
title_short Ethics of personalized information filtering
title_sort ethics of personalized information filtering
topic Privacy
Transparency
Behavior manipulation
RRI
Filter bubble
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49983/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49983/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49983/