{"id":110,"date":"2005-12-03T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T21:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2005\/12\/03\/googles-alan-davidson-on-areas-of-spe"},"modified":"2006-12-10T06:13:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T10:13:30","slug":"googles-alan-davidson-on-areas-of-special-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2005\/12\/03\/googles-alan-davidson-on-areas-of-special-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Alan Davidson on Areas of Special Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a400\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/islandia.law.yale.edu\/isp\/regulatingsearch.html#davidson\"> Alan Davidson<\/a>, Washington Policy Counsel and head of Google&#8217;s new Washington DC government affairs office, made several interesting remarks in his <a href=\"http:\/\/islandia.law.yale.edu\/isp\/regulatingsearch.html#panel4\">panel statement<\/a>. Among them: He identified the following two areas that are of special concern to search engine providers:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Conceptual shift in speech regulation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Old approach (offline media): focused on publishers, readers<\/li>\n<li>New &amp; emerging generation of speech regulation: focus on deliverers \u2013 intermediaries are supposed to police the networks. Examples where this approach is currently up for discussion in D.C.: access to pharmaceutical products, blocking of gaming websites<\/li>\n<li>Assessment: It\u2019s not a good idea to target intermediaries: Due process, procedural problem: intermediary, e.g., can\u2019t tell whether or not a particular site featuring copyrighted content is a fair use or not; by going after the intermediary you take the publisher out of equation, can\u2019t go to courts to argue the case<\/li>\n<li>Misguided, because search engines are only in the business of indexing existing content; they&#8217;re not editors (can&#8217;t be, given the scale.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(2) Government access to information<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increasing pressures to provide personalized information (search history, etc.) to third parties<\/li>\n<li>Best privacy policy doesn\u2019t help if government wants information for national security reasons; standards really low; plus: search engines not allowed to inform users that info has been passed on to third parties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Davidson, Washington Policy Counsel and head of Google&#8217;s new Washington DC government affairs office, made several interesting remarks in his panel statement. Among them: He identified the following two areas that are of special concern to search engine providers: (1) Conceptual shift in speech regulation Old approach (offline media): focused on publishers, readers New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1180,279,1182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-of-expression","category-privacy","category-search"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}