Description: Topics covered in this lecture include:
Nineteen Eighty-Four
What is privacy?
Privacy is a multifaceted and complex issue
Discuss: What is privacy?
What is privacy?
An individual's right to selectively share information about themselves, or to seclude themselves
Physical:
Modesty, having own spaces
Information:
Medical, political, religion, opinions, etc
Privacy
Discuss:
Do people have a right to anonymity?
What are some reasons for wanting and having privacy?
What are some reasons for limiting privacy?
Rights
Privacy related rights:
Freedom of thought
Freedom of speech and expression
Freedom of association (unions, societies, religion, etc)
Right to privacy
Privacy and security
Confidentiality vs privacy?
Data protection
Privacy and law
Businesses should not store more than they need, and should protect it
There are instances when members of the public are required to produce personal information
Such as for tax purposes
Privacy and ethics
As a systems administrator, would it be ethical to read the email of employees? Under what circumstances?
Privacy and ethics
Voluntary sacrifice
Sometimes you voluntarily sacrifice some of your privacy
Entering competitions (email address)
Using online “free” services
Nothing to hide?
'true anonymity is too dangerous.'
– Google CEO Eric Schmidt
What could go wrong?
What could go wrong?
Michael P. Lynch, professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut
What could go wrong?
Influence
Loss of autonomy
Unbalance of power between individuals and institutions
Targeted advertising?
Take advantage of the vulnerable?
Identity theft
How hard would it be to steal someone's identity?
Man in the middle on social media?
Privacy and IT
Becoming possible to store everything, forever?
Discuss: What does your digital footprint include?
IT companies
The business model of many IT companies relies on gathering as much information as possible
Google/Facebook/[other] can be considered advertising companies, end users are the product
IT companies often back weak privacy laws
Use gathered information to target advertising
IT companies
IT companies probably know more about you than your partners or parents do
Google street view
Google glass
Record your whole life, and those around you
Good idea?
Should police be required to wear them?
Gmail
Google processes all mail sent to and from Gmail users, to target advertising
This includes inspecting email sent from non-Gmail users
What are the privacy considerations?
Google
Records web searches
Location services (even track when you are near stores)
Google stores Wi-Fi passwords, if you backup Android to the cloud
Facebook
“Reality 1: You Do Not Have a Facebook Page [...] Facebook has a page on you.”
Facebook can track your visits to any pages containing a like button
Graph search: a search engine for mining information from Facebook. Some chilling examples:
Catholics who like Durex
Mothers of Jews who like bacon
Single women who live nearby, interested in men, and like getting drunk
Social media and employment
Apple
Siri Keeps Your Data For Two Years
Apple devices were found to be extensively recording GPS location history
Surveillance and law enforcement
Historically surveillance was expensive and difficult
With IT, it is cheap and easy
Now that corporations are collecting the data, it is easy for a government to request that data
(in many cases without a warrant)
Some governments have been involved in massive surveillance efforts
Moved from targeted collection, to broad collection of information about almost everyone
Surveillance and law enforcement
CCTV
Listening/recording devices in public spaces
License plate scanners
“vast databases with records of movements of massive numbers of people”
Domestic drone use (USA)
Internet data collection
Surveillance and law enforcement
New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly after the Boston Marathon bombing (CCTV was used to find the perpetrators)
Edward Snowden
PRISM
Tempora: operated by the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), stores large amounts of Internet users' personal data
Data is allegedly shared with USA
Allegedly includes recording of phone calls and web browsing history
Approximately 850,000 people can access the data
Edward Snowden
David Cameron
Surveillance and law enforcement
Should everyone (including the innocent) be in databases used by law enforcement?
Facial recognition (drivers licenses)?
Fingerprints?
DNA?
Privacy international
Surveillance and technology
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