Title :
Reading Over Your Shoulder
Author_Institution :
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ
Abstract :
Today, Amazon recommends books to you based on the books you´ve previously bought or searched for-soon, it could know exactly what paragraphs you´ve read. But will this help it make better recommendations? Is this customer service or an invasion of privacy? The author takes a look at recommender systems and if they truly deliver on what they promise or portend a much more error-prone method of tracking people.
Keywords :
information filters; Amazon; books recommendations; customer service; privacy invasion; recommender systems; Biographies; Books; Cardiac disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Cities and towns; Customer service; Information retrieval; Libraries; Privacy; Security; economics; privacy; recommender systems; security; security & privacy; security & privacy economics;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSP.2009.74
