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Wikileaks

Wikileaks. And Privacy. Order of class. Returning Assignment 1 IT in the News Wikileaks and Privacy The Guardian's "Secrets and Lies" Discussion Sections. Return Assignment 1. IT in the News. Policy-heavy this week The doctrine of first sale (materiality). Wikileaks and Privacy.

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Wikileaks

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  1. Wikileaks And Privacy

  2. Order of class Returning Assignment 1 IT in the News Wikileaks and Privacy The Guardian's "Secrets and Lies" Discussion Sections

  3. Return Assignment 1

  4. IT in the News Policy-heavy this week The doctrine of first sale (materiality)

  5. Wikileaks and Privacy Why Wikileaks?

  6. Wikileaks The strength of association (Tarde) Political accretion Anonymous collective Pirate parties

  7. Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo The New York Times (Neil Sheehan) February 1971 Senator Mike Gravel 4,100 pages of the Papers entered into public record Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Ground

  8. Revelations Pentagon papers revealed an expansion of the Vietnam War that had gone unreported. Bombing of Cambodia and Laos, Coastal raids on North Vietnam, Marine Corps attacks More importantly, revealed internal attitudes within the defense department.

  9. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger said: "Newspapers... we're really a part of history that should have been made available, considerably longer ago. I just didn't feel there was any breach of national security, in the sense that we were giving secrets to the enemy."

  10. The paper to the internet News reporting through newspaper as an established technology. Journalistic ethics. The concept of journalism (the fourth estate) "Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all" - Thomas Carlyle

  11. Political power of journalism: Since 1787 (Burke quote) Widespread delivery and use Established standards for admission Defined roles and individuals The newspaper is a technology that had already negotiated its place in the political world.

  12. No such negotiation in regards to the internet. Widespread access (75%) in America in 2004. Wikileaks established in 2006. Outside of blogging, much of the news content on the internet was still mediated by journalists.

  13. Founded in 2006, received significant public attention starting in 2010. "Collateral Murder" Shifts over that time period: Initially international documents Moved to largely, then almost exclusively, US Abandoned analysis, wiki, in favor of quantity

  14. Timeline of Significant Leaks December 2006: First leak (Kill order signed by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys) November 2007: Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta (Guantanamo) March 2008: The Collected Secret "Bibles" of Scientology September 2008: Sarah Palin's Yahoo account (Anonymous) November 2008: British National party member roll July 2009: Natanz nuclear accident report (Stuxnet) October 2009: Joint services protocol (UK avoiding leaks) February 2010: Reykjavik cables (Bradley Manning) March 2010: DoD Counterintelligence report April 2010: Collateral Murder (Reuters reporters) (Manning) --Wikileaks enters the popular vocabulary-- July 2010: Afghan War Diary October 2010: Iraq War Logs November 2010: Cablegate April 2011: Guantanamo Files July 2012: The Syria Files

  15. From the Pentagon Papers to the War Logs A new fourth estate: Translating norms between technologies. The eroding concept of journalism. Loss of protection for journalists.

  16. Privacy So how do we relate this to privacy? Technological capabilities carry over. Scope Scale Network effects

  17. A right to privacy? Start with a definition:

  18. Privacy from whom? When? Control or secrecy? Opt-in or opt-out? Privacy FOR whom?

  19. Privacy is a mobile, contextual concept. Difficult to earmark a thing as always being private. Legal interpretations of the home. "The expectations of the rational man" Privacy is generally protected under the fourth amendment. (Illegal search and seizure)

  20. Do governments have the same right to privacy as individuals? Do politicians? Corporations? Should differing levels of expectation exist based on the type of online interaction? Facebook v. WebMD

  21. If we cast the actions of Wikileaks into the realm of privacy, the question becomes not whether the government is justified in pursuing a criminal complaint, but rather whether Assange, et al. were justified in violating the privacy of the government.

  22. The culture of anonymity in Wikileaks. 800 employees. 3 names. The Anonymous collective.

  23. So why privacy? And when? We are in the process of a technological renegotiation or privacy.

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