Online privacy

Online privacy

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  ONLINE PRIVACY; MYTHOR REALITY? Swaleh A. Ahmed
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  Privacy? • Refersto the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others. • Every person has the right to privacy, which includes the right not to have-- a) their person, home or property searched; b) their possessions seized; c) information relating to their family or private affairs unnecessarily required or revealed; or d) the privacy of their communications infringed. http://www.kictanet.or.ke/?p=19844
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  Internet privacy involvesthe right or mandate of personal privacy concerning the storing, repurposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via the Internet. Internet privacy is a subset of computer privacy.
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  Privacy Questions •Where is my data? • How is it used? • Who sees it? • Is anything private anymore? Everything about you is in at least one computer file
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  How Did TheyGet My Data? • Loans • Charge accounts • Orders via mail • Magazine subscriptions • Tax forms • Applications for schools, jobs, clubs • Insurance claim • Hospital stay • Sending checks • Fund-raisers • Advertisers • Warranties • Military draft registration • Court petition
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  Your Boss isSpying on You! Monitoring software – Screens – E-mail – Keystrokes per minute – Length of breaks – What computer files are used and for how long Privacy groups want legislation requiring employers to alert employees that they are being monitored.
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  Monitoring by WebSites Records: • City • Site you just left • Everything you do while on the site • Hardware and software you use • Click stream – Series of clicks that link from site to site – History of what the user chooses to view
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  Monitoring by WebSites Cookie • Stores information about you • Located on your hard drive • Beneficial uses – Viewing preferences – Online shopping – Secure sites retain password in cookie • Controversial use – Tracking surfing habits for advertisers • Can set browser to refuse cookies or warn before storing • Software available to manage cookies
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  P3P Platform forPrivacy Preference Project • Standards proposed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – User sets privacy preferences – Web server transmits privacy policies – Software determines if web site meets users’ requirements • Participation by web site is voluntary
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  We lose Privacy:Technology • Ubiquitous communications capacity • Walls evaporate for reading, viewing • transactions can be observed anywhere • Extensive processing capacity • Inefficiency & cost protect privacy • Aggregating and access • Data-mining – analysis algorithms • Communications + processing • Transactional data collection • Profiling • Data mining
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  We lose Privacy:Business • Information as competitive tool • Customized preference formation: advertising • Customized service/goods delivered • Customized price/price discrimination • Customer’s life-long consumption as primary asset of firm • Proprietary information fends off competitive pressures
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  We lose Privacy:Politics • U.S. & other governments highly sophisticated information gatherers • 1990s saw the encryption wars, US Government partially lost • September 11th released the leash • Governments back into an explicit role of extensive information collection and processing • Including by access to market-actor collected information
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  Fair Information Practices • Minimal standards imposed by law with a supporting regulatory framework • As opposed to “privacy preferences” • EU Data protection • OECD Guidelines
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  Fair Information Practices • Collection Limitation • Data Quality • Purpose Specification • Use Limitation • Security Safeguards • Openness • Individual Participation • Accountability
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  RFID Story •Clothing manufacturers sew RFID into cloth. Include garment characteristics, cloth batch etc for recalls & quality control • Stores, malls, etc. install readers to limit pilfering & for inventory management • Question • Mall owners use the information to dynamically change the advertisements they project on billboards in the Mall • Police officers use the information to track the location of cloths that match crime scene evidence
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  Hypothetical Amazon Story • Collects information to tailor offerings • Provides good recommendations for books to read • Suggests music you like • Offers good advice when you seem to need it, usually guesses right what you need • How far would you go with this? • Buying a car or furniture • Financing/loan services • Physician referral service
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  discussion • Howprivate is your online experience?
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  “The only trueprotection is to understand that anything you put up there can be accessed by somebody else.”