6 December Privacy

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Privacy

What is privacy? 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

Some Views on Privacy “All this secrecy is making life harder, more expensive, dangerous …” Peter Cochran, former head of BT (British Telecom) Research “You have zero privacy anyway.” Scott McNealy, CEO Sun Microsystems “By 2010, privacy will become a meaningless concept in western society” Gartner report, 2000

Historical Basis of Privacy Justice of Peace Act (England 1361) Provides for arrest of Peeping Toms and eavesdroppers Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) European Convention on Human Rights (1970)

Legal Realities of Privacy Self-regulation approach in US, Japan Comprehensive laws in Europe, Canada, Australia European Union Limits data collection Requires comprehensive disclosures Prohibits data export to unsafe countries Or any country for some types of data

Aspects of Privacy Anonymity Security Transparency and Control: knowing what is being collected

Impediments to Privacy Surveillance Data collection and sharing Cookies Web site last year was discovered capturing cookies that it retained for 5 years Sniffing, Snarfing, Snorting All are forms of capturing packets as they pass through the network Differ by how much information is captured and what is done with it

P3P Platform for Privacy Preference Voluntary standard still in draft form Structures a web sites policies in a machine readable format Allows browsers to understand the policy and behave according to a user’s defined preferences