Privacy Lost: How Technology is Endangering Your Privacy CS Final Paper Presentation By: Christina Sulfaro

Privacy Lost  Privacy Lost: How Technology is Endangering Your Privacy  The author is David H. Holtzman  Published in 2006

Book Overview  Provides information on how every individual’s privacy is diminishing because of the advancing of technology  Effects of technology on our society  It describes new threats to privacy because of how much technology is growing and how the government cannot protect our individual privacy rights.

Main focuses in the book  Seven sins of privacy  How technology affects our privacy  Privacy and the law  Surveillance and stalking  Government security invasions  How to fight back in order to get our privacy back.

continued  He organizes his thoughts into the seven sins of privacy Includes  Sin of Intrusion  Sin of Latency  Sin of Deception  Sin of Profiling  Sin of Identity Theft  Sin of Outing  Sin of Lost Dignity Each sin states a different way our privacy is being affected

Technology Affecting Privacy  As technology progressed our privacy has decreased  “Here’s a secret, there is really only one computer in the world.”  Once something is on the internet, it will never be deleted  Many more privacy intrusions are occurring because of the internet Privacy and the law  Privacy is not a right in the constitution  Legal protection of privacy doesn’t work well

Surveillance and stalking  Mini cameras making it easy to stalk someone  Surveillance becoming more advanced to spy on people  Every phone has a GPS and can be tracked Government security invasions  It’s the job of the government to want to know things about its citizens that they don’t want to reveal and here is where invasion of privacy comes in.  Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Patriot Act both effect privacy

How to fight back  Privacy is under the individual’s control  Don’t give out personal information, especially over the internet  Privacy invasions can’t be prevented once the information is out  Keep your privacy offline and off the internet

How the book relates to class  This book relates to class very well  We have talked about privacy a majority of the classes  This is part of the “Bad and Ugly” parts of the internet  Most of the topics Holtzman discuss directly relate to the class

Book recommendations  I would recommend this book to pretty much anyone that uses technology  It helps to acknowledge people on what it can really do to people  Holtzman portrays the book in a way anyone can understand  If you want to learn a lot more about how technology can hurt your privacy and what you can do to stop it, I highly recommend this book