Can I See You Now?

1. Can I See You Now?

2. What would it take to know everything? • Today’s possibility - Pizza demo • Tomorrow’s - A life recorder? 200 Gb/year for audio, 700 Gb/year for video • Today we produce our information by choice • Tomorrow we emit our information without knowing . . .

3. Boston is Watching

4. Cambridge is Watching

5. Citizen Protest

6. 18 CCTV public areas and parking lots

7. Tracking You with GPS • 24 satellites, which continuously transmit microwave signals regarding their locations at a given time • Through analysis of the data coming in from various satellites, a GPS receiver can determine its own location (for instance, if it's in a car, it can determine the car's location). • And if a GPS device has a transmitter, as well as a receiver, it can also broadcast its location to third parties.

8. Cell Phones • E911 service - Reverse directory – call routed to a Public Safety Answering Point • The Missouri Department of Transportation will monitor the movements of individuals on highways via their cell phones -- without their knowledge or consent • Cell phone company can track to within 100 meters.

9. Cell Phone Tracking • Automatic Surveillance Via Cell Phone • Your cell phone company knows where your phone is whenever it's on • Given enough data, algorithms are able to predict what people within an organization -- especially employees -- would do next and be right up to 85 percent of the time. • This is worrisome from a number of angles: government surveillance, corporate surveillance for marketing purposes, criminal surveillance.

10. Mologogo • Get prepaid phone • Download free program • Sign up with server – Google Maps • Works with Sprint - Nextel

11. Mologogo – Tracking Your Friends

12. EZ Pass • Expanding to more and more states • Used for crime fighting • Traffic violations • Airport Parking • MacDonalds

13. Radio Frequency ID (RFID) • Undetectable and transmits several meters or more • Currently – no regulation • Passports • Clothing • Pets • Money? • You?

14. Magnetic Strips • Drivers license • Student ID • Credit Card • Loyalty Cards • Frequent Flyer

15. Real ID = National ID? • Starting three years from now – used for all government transactions • At a minimum: name, birth date, sex, ID number, a digital photograph, address, and a "common machine-readable technology" • Technologies to prevent fraud and copying • Homeland Security is permitted to add additional requirements--such as a fingerprint or retinal scan--on top of those. • With standardized technology - who might want to swipe? Bars, banks, airlines? • police can demand to see ID from law-abiding U.S. citizens.

16. Bentley ID • Meal Plan • Discretionary • Card Key • Hand Check for access

17. Our Travels Online Yahoo, MSN – gave search histories to FBI for research purposes on child pornography – not a criminal investigation. AOL - In August 2006, AOL published 650,000 users' search histories on its website Amazon – Retain your search history and might sell it should Amazon get a new owner. Google Desktop - the new "Search Across Computers" feature will store copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google's own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user's computers.

18. Google Search A search for “cars” inktomi1-lng.server.ntl.com - 25/Mar/2003 10:15:32 -  http://www.google.com/search?q=cars" - MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1 - 740674ce2123e969 Simplified inktomi1-lng.server.ntl.com(my internet address, resolved to a domain name) 25/Mar/2003 10:15:32(date and time I searched) http://www.google.com/search?q=cars(my search request, containing the word cars in it) MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1(shows the browser I used and operating system, MS Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP) 740674ce2123e969(my unique cookie ID,assigned to my browser the first time I visited

19. Google GMail • Gmail is supported by advertisers who buy keywords, • Gmail uses "content extraction" on all incoming and outgoing e-mail in order to target the advertising to the user. For example, if the user is having an e-mail conversation about applying for a job, Gmail might present the user with ads about online job search sites and resume writing services. • Nonsubscriber email is also searched • Gmail can be profiled across Google product lines • Unlimited data retention

20. Facebook’s New Service 2,100 Colleges 22,000 High Schools 15,000 Corporations Military News Feed - Broadcasting your updates as headlines to your friends. Protest “Calm. down. breathe. We hear you,"

21. Cell Phone Cameras • The Video Voyeurism Prevention Act of 2004 passed through Congress virtually unopposed.. • Prohibits the photographing or videotaping of a naked person without his or her permission in a gym, tanning salon, dressing room or anywhere else where one expects a "reasonable expectation of privacy." • Violators can expect fines of up to $100,000 and/or up to a year in prison.

22. Yahoo Buy Facebook? • Yahoo privacy site • http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html

23. Learn the Language Personally identifying information Aggregate information Opt Out Opt In Privacy Policies Good Practices Clean machine Do not share personal information Write email and post on facebook like the whole world will read it. Use anonymizers Encrypt Pray What Can We Do?

24. And Finally • 79% of credit reports contain errors • 25% of credit reports have errors serious enough to cause life problems • Choicepoint lost 145,000 records • Bank of America – 1.2 m customer records • Citigroup – 3.9 m • And on and on and on . . .