Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2004 Lorrie Cranor 1 Current Issues Week 14 - November 30, December 2

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2004 Lorrie Cranor 2 Administrivia Class on Thursday will be for assembling posters - if your poster is done you don’t have to attend Poster fair Friday 3-5 pm, NSH Atrium  Arrive early to setup  Invite your friends  Cookies! TA evaluations

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2004 Lorrie Cranor 3 Brian video What do you think?

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2004 Lorrie Cranor 4 Use of drug/bomb sniffing dogs scotus11nov11,0, story?coll=la-home-nation Justice O’Connor: “A dog sniff is not a search.”  Assistant AG Wray: "There is no intrusion [on the privacy of the owner], and therefore no search." Justice Scalia: “This is not a new technology. This is a dog.” Justice Souter: “Why can't police go up to the front door of every house on the street? When the homeowner comes to the door, the dog could sniff for drugs inside.” Under what conditions should dogs be permitted to sniff? What if it was a new technology?

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2004 Lorrie Cranor 5 Pop quiz

Privacy Policy, Law and Technology Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2004 Lorrie Cranor 6 P3P Quiz Website GreatWidgets.com uses a third-party service provider ShopHelp.com to run a shopping cart service that allows customers to purchase widgets on their website. The ShopHelp service places third-party cookies on the GreatWidgets web site. After Microsoft rolled out IE6, GreatWidgets started getting complaints from some of their customers that the shopping cart function was no longer working. After reading an article about P3P, the GreatWidgets webmaster wondered whether the new IE6 privacy settings might be causing the shopping cart problem. She consulted with the GreatWidgets Chief Privacy Officer and created a P3P policy for GreatWidgets and posted it on the site. She also created a P3P policy reference file and posted it at the well-known location on the GreatWidgets web site. However, the customer complaints about shopping cart failures did not end. What would you suggest to the webmaster that she try next to solve the problem?