• DocumentCode
    987174
  • Title

    Reading Over Your Shoulder

  • Author

    Lesk, Michael

  • Author_Institution
    Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ
  • Volume
    7
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    78
  • Lastpage
    81
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2009.74
  • Filename
    5054917