To Whom Do Data Belong?——Data Ownership and Protection in the Context of Web-Crawlers

Platform data has already become an important asset for web-based companies,but this sort of data frequently includes large amounts of personal information.Platform data can be seen as belonging to an individual,belonging to a platform,belonging to some combinations of the two,or can be seen as a form of Internet-based public data.Analysis of legal clauses and doctrines as well as analysis based in legitimacy and consequentialism both fail to completely delineate data ownership.One potential reason for this is that there are many types of platform data,and that each type is highly dependent on circumstances.The determination of rights in regard to platform data should be done in a way which revolves around a contextual regulatory framework,one in which the rules of reason is applied on a case-by-case basis and in which gradual changes are done in a bottom-up manner,and not one which seeks to establish a universal set of data regulations.In actual judgments,factors such as the nature of the platform and the nature of the data crawling behavior should be comprehensively considered while ensuring a balance of data circulation and data protection.

Real-time crash prediction on freeways using data mining and emerging techniques

Recent advances in intelligent transportation system allow traffic safety studies to extend from historic data-based analyses to real-time applications. The study presents a new method to predict crash likelihood with traffic data collected by discrete loop detectors as well as the web-crawl weather data. Matched case-control method and support vector machines （SVMs） technique were employed to identify the risk status. The adaptive synthetic over-sampling technique was applied to solve the imbalanced dataset issues. Random forest technique was applied to select the contributing factors and avoid the over-fitting issues. The results indicate that the SVMs classifier could successfully classify 76.32% of the crashes on the test dataset and 87.52% of the crashes on the overall dataset, which were relatively satisfactory compared with the results of the previous studies. Compared with the SVMs classifier without the data, the SVMs classifier with the web-crawl weather data increased the crash prediction accuracy by 1.32% and decreased the false alarm rate by 1.72%, showing the potential value of the massive web weather data. Mean impact value method was employed to evaluate the variable effects, and the results are identical with the results of most of previous studies. The emerging technique based on the discrete traffic data and web weather data proves to be more applicable on real- time safety management on freeways.