Homework #3

*REMINDER* You must do your own work. You may not collaborate
with each other on homework assignments.

Due: 9 a.m. in class 4/25.


1. You are an e-commerce provider of golf clubs and other goods related
   to this wonderful sport. You sell everything online. You are willing
   to provide names and addresses of customers to anyone who will pay you
   your fee (shame on you). However, you will not set cookies on peoples'
   machines, and you do not keep track of peoples' browsing habits. You
   destroy your web logs every night. 

   a. Create a policy for your site that is appropriate for posting on the site.
      You may copy/paste from existing policies on the web to get all the legalise
      right, but make sure that the policy conforms to the policy rules in the 
      assignment. Print it out to turn in.
   b. Using publicly available tools, create a P3P policy in XML for the site
      policy in (a), and print it out to turn in.
   c. Create a web page with your policy and include your P3P policy. Using the
      P3P validator at http://www.w3.org/P3P/validator.html, validate the policy
      to make sure it is correct and print out the results to turn in. Leave the
      web site up for me to check as part of the grading.
      
2. Somebody invents a new type of shoe. It has a special sensor that measures
   the temperature of your foot and uploads it to your computer, which sends it
   over the web to a server controlled by the inventor. If you have a temperature
   that indicates a fever, the server automatically contacts the shoe and opens
   a flap so that your foot will get more air. 

   a. Would it be possible to trademark this shoe with the name Oreo? Why or why not?
   b. If someone were to try to trademark this invention as Reebok, under what
      circumstances would they get away with it?
   c. Is it okay to patent this shoe, even if one of the claims is:
      "A unit of clothing that wraps around the foot, keeping the toes warm."
      Explain your answer.
   d. What are the privacy implications of such an online temperature-gaging
      service?

3. Which is more privacy invasive, the physical world or cyberspace? Justify
   your answer. (I expect about 2-3 paragraphs.)