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Graph notes. Discrete data: do the lines between mean anything? When do you use area charts: does the area mean anything or is it for visual effect? Stacked charts: only if equivalent numbers Axes: log, change values Titles and labels. Privacy. 26 April 2011. “The right to be alone”
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Graph notes • Discrete data: do the lines between mean anything? • When do you use area charts: does the area mean anything or is it for visual effect? • Stacked charts: only if equivalent numbers • Axes: log, change values • Titles and labels
Privacy 26 April 2011 “The right to be alone” Warren and Brandeis, 1890 “zone of inaccessibility” Edmund Byrne, 1998
Views on Privacy • “All this secrecy is making life harder, more expensive, dangerous …” Peter Cochran, BT Research • “You have zero privacy anyway.” Scott McNealy, Sun • “By 2010, privacy will become a meaningless concept in western society” Gartner report
Aspects of Privacy • Secrecy • Limiting dissemination of information • Anonymity • Protection from undesired attention • Solitude • Lack of proximity Ruth Gavison 1984
Possible Harms • Deception • Crime • Isolation • Lack of Support
Without Privacy • Extrinsic loss of freedom • Ability of others to control our behavior • Coercion or imposition of others’ wills • Intrinsic loss of freedom • Changes how we behave • “anticipatory conformity” • Autonomy requires privacy
Privacy and Trust • In order to trust others, need to know something about them • Privacy impedes • In order to build STRONGEST trust between two people, need to create a bond • Requires privacy
Importance of Privacy • Privacy and relationships • How is it different from pre-computers/networks? • Electronic alter ego • Identity convergence
Everyone Agrees • Privacy is not absolute in society …why? • Willing to divulge SOME information in exchange for SOME economic or social benefit…. • BUT reasonable expectation about how it’s treated…
Controversy & Challenge • My right to informational privacy • vs. others’ right to know • vs. security • Does it have to be versus? • Is it really a zero-sum game?
My rights • Shouldn’t I have a say? • Why should I care? • Decisions made about us • Effect if data are Incomplete? Erroneous? Sensitive?
Privacy Impingement In the Past • Go to the court or town hall • Go through trash • Interview people • Eavesdrop/wiretap • Surveillance • Breaking and entering
… and Today • Public records easier to find • Publications spread faster • Surveillance • Keeping records of what you do on the web • Shopping • Surfing • Searching • Breaches
Privacy on the Web • The right to have information that you don’t expect to be available to others remain that way • On many sites, you give up your right to privacy • But there are also other more insidious ways • Google Dashboard
Aspects of Privacy • Transparency and Control: knowing what is being collected • Anonymity • Security • Data breaches chronology
Impediments to Privacy • Cookies • Web site retaining cookies for 5 years • Sniffing, Snarfing, Snorting • Forms of capturing packets over network • Differ by how much info & what is done with it • Surveillance • Different forms? • Google Street View • Data collection and sharing
Data & informational privacy • One should ask: • Who has ACCESS? • Who shouldhave ACCESS? • Need to know? • Why? • How long is the data kept?
Video Entertainment • No Place to Hide • Big Brother Big Business