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Automating Communication Privacy

Last week we posted an idea for automatic processing of legal agreements. Today, we want to show a case study, which is still far from complete and definately not final. What this demonstration captures is how we want other parties to communicate with us. Something like this could be used by companies to automatically decide whether they can sign you up for email marketing, and so on. Moreover, it provides handles for law enforcement.

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Automating Legal Terms

Legal terms on the Internet are a nuisance. The term TL;DR ("Too Long, Didn't Read") is used to indicate how meaningless the wordy drivel has become, due to sheer length. Interestingly, contracts have a lot of similarity. We should be able to automate them, in fact.

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New Web Era 1: Frontends and Backends

We published articles on pernicious developments on the web; now it is time to explain how we see this improve under the InternetWide Architecture. As usual, our approach is practical, but we don’t shy away from adopting new standards if they improve the overall situation.

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Web Architecture 4: Proper Authentication, anyone?

No protocol is so behind on authentication as the web. It is the most important vehicle for many of us, but we are still dealing with site-specific passwords. And letting this be solved by large corporations isn't quite the Internet style of doing things either.

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Web Architecture 3: the Database Backend

Many websites are dynamic, and require the use of a database in their backend. It is surprising to so how unfit this solution is for the problem at hand.

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