Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 1 Overview Week 1 - August 31, September 2

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 2 Introductions About me About you Name Where are you from? What program are you in? Why are you taking this class Make a name tag EPP

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 3 Syllabus Office hours TA Books Class schedule Subject to change - check web site for latest updates Guest speakers Research and communication skills  Homework Project (to be discussed in more detail Sept 2) Course requirements and grading Class mailing list

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 4 Course number Course is cross-listed as / / / Please switch to (especially if you are a grad student signed up for )

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 5 Cheating will not be tolerated You must do your own homework It is acceptable to discuss the reading assignments and general approaches to solving homework problems with your classmates It is not acceptable to discuss detailed homework answers or to copy homework answers from other students Hopefully you already knew this….

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 6 Avoiding Plagiarism

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 7 CMU Policy on Cheating and Plagiarism CMU Policy*: Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, failure to indicate the source with quotation marks or footnotes where appropriate if any of the following are reproduced in the work submitted by a student: 1.A phrase, written or musical. 2.A graphic element. 3.A proof. 4.Specific language. 5.An idea derived from the work, published or unpublished, of another person. * Research and Communication Skills

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 8 This is serious Consequences of plagiarism in this class range from zero credit for entire assignment to failing the course to recommendation of university disciplinary action Publishers and professional societies have plagiarism policies too The Internet makes it easy to plagiarize Students are frequently cutting and pasting off the Internet without proper quotation and/or citations Students are buying papers off the Internet The Internet also makes it easy to catch plagiarism Research and Communication Skills

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 9 Avoiding plagiarism If you use someone’s specific words, put them in quotes and cite the source If you use someone’s ideas expressed in your own words, cite the source If you paraphrase, summarize in your own words, but still cite source Don’t use same sentence structure with a few word substitutions If you use some of the source’s words, put them in quotes When in doubt, put it in quotes and cite the source! Research and Communication Skills

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 10 Good resources on avoiding plagiarism Includes nice examples of good and bad paraphrasing Includes good suggestions for how to avoid accidental plagiarism in your writing Research and Communication Skills

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 11 Creating a Bibliography and Citing Sources

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 12 Creating a bibliography and citing sources Do you know how to create a properly formatted bibliography? Why is a list of URLs not a proper bibliography? Research and Communication Skills

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 13 Citing sources Whenever you take words, images, or ideas from another source you need to cite that source Direct quotes and paraphrases Images, photographs, tables, graphs Ideas, measurements, computations Also use citations as evidence to back up assertions If you use somebody else’s words, you must quote them Short excerpts appear in quotes Long excerpts (3 or more lines) are introduced and then appear as indented text, often in a smaller font, single spaced If you leave out words in the middle use … If you leave out words at the end use …. If you substitute or add words, put them in square brackets [] If you add italics say [emphasis added] Failure to cite sources = plagiarism Research and Communication Skills

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 14 Paraphrasing Usually paraphrasing ideas is preferable to quoting unless Exact wording is important You are quoting famous words You are critiquing or comparing specific words rather than ideas The original words say what you want to say very well and succinctly Usually paraphrasing lets you convey an idea more succinctly because you can focus on the part of the idea most relevant to your paper If you end up using some of the original words in your paraphrase, use quotes around those words Research and Communication Skills

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 15 Forms of citation Full bibliographic citation inline Typically used on a slide Footnote or endnote Used in legal writing, many books, some conferences and journals Inline short citation with bibliography, references cited section, or reference list Used by most technical conferences and journals, some books, most dissertations Research and Communication Skills

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 16 Citations in text Format depends on style you are using Usually a number or author and date, sometimes a page number reference too Citation usually goes at the end of the sentence Privacy is not “absolute,” (Westin 1967). Privacy is not “absolute,” [3]. If Author is mentioned, in sentence, name does not appear in citation Westin (1967, p. 7) claims that individuals must balance a desire for privacy with a desire to participate in society. Multiple citations can appear together [3, 4, 5] (Westin 1967; Cranor 2002) Research and Communication Skills

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 17 Footnotes Used heavily in legal writing Usually used sparingly in technical writing Each footnote appears only once If you reference the same source multiple times you must repeat the reference information, however you can abbreviate it on second and subsequent references and use ibid to indicate same as previous reference Research and Communication Skills

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 18 Creating a bibliography Similar rules apply to other forms of citation (footnotes, etc.) Pick an appropriate style and use it consistently throughout your paper Most conferences and journals have style requirements Popular styles: Chicago/Turabian, MLA, APA, APSA (see for pointers) Complete bibliographic entry includes author, title, date, publisher, place of publication, pages, volume number, etc. Bibliographic entries should be ordered - usually either alphabetically or in order referenced in the text Research and Communication Skills

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 19 Word processing tools Microsoft Word Word has built in support for footnotes and endnotes Use cross reference feature for numbered reference lists Third party bibliographic add-ons may be useful LaTeX Built in support for footnotes and endnotes Use Bibtex! Research and Communication Skills

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 20 Homework 1 Due September 7

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 21 Course Preview Tour Privacy in words and pictures

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 22 Semester Project

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 23 Overview Individual or small group (up to 5 students) Pick your own project or one that I suggest All projects have final paper, presentation, and poster as deliverable Some projects may have other deliverables such as software, user interface designs, etc.

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 24 Project schedule August 31/September 2 - Project assignment discussed in class September 19 - Project brainstorming due (2 points) October 3 - One-paragraph project description due (3 points) October 17 - Project proposal due (15 points) November 14 - Draft paper due (5 points) December 9, 3pm - Final paper due (60 points) December 5, 7,? - Project presentations in class (10 points) December 14 - Poster fair (5 points)

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 25 Suggested projects Projects can be turned into a thesis or published paper Sign up for thesis research or independent study next semester Last year projects in this class resulted in 5 papers submitted for publication (3 have been accepted, 2 are still under review)  The Real ID Act: Fixing Identity Documents with Duct Tape. To appear in I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Fall/Winter  Counter-Forensic Privacy Tools: A Forensic Evaluation. Under review.  Peripheral Privacy Notifications for Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, 7 November 2005, Alexandria, VA.  Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness. In Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET2005), 30 May - 1 June 2005, Dubrovnik, Croatia.  PANAMA: Privacy Assured Name-Addressable Messaging Architecture For Unlinkable Instant Message Conversations. Under review. One of the papers was also an INI thesis

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 26 Selecting a research topic Brainstorm What are you interested in? What would you like to learn more about? What topics might be relevant to your thesis work? What topics might be relevant to your future career? Select a small number of candidate topics (Sept 19) Read How much information seems to be available? Is this topic over done? What open questions are there? Do you still find this topic interesting? Do you have the skills necessary to pursue this topic? Focus (October 3 - one paragraph description) Select a topic Define a focused research question Read some more Conduct a “literature review” Adjust your topic as needed Write a project proposal (October 17) Research and Communication Skills

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2005 Lorrie Cranor 27 What does privacy mean to you?