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Beyond Innovation And Competition: The Need For Qualified Transparency In Internet Intermediaries, Frank Pasquale
Beyond Innovation And Competition: The Need For Qualified Transparency In Internet Intermediaries, Frank Pasquale
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Internet service providers and search engines have mapped the web, accelerated e-commerce, and empowered new communities. They also pose new challenges for law. Individuals are rapidly losing the ability to affect their own image on the web - or even to know what data are presented about them. When web users attempt to find information or entertainment, they have little assurance that a carrier or search engine is not biasing the presentation of results in accordance with its own commercial interests.
Technology’s impact on privacy and democratic culture needs to be at the center of internet policy-making. Yet before they …