1. Privacy and the Law

2. First Legal Protection of Speech— First Amendment of Constitution:
The First Amendment expressly prohibits the United States Congress from making laws "respecting an establishment of religion" or that prohibit the free exercise of religion, infringe the freedom of speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the right to peaceably assemble, or limit the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

3. First Legal Protection of Privacy—IV Amendment of Constitution:
The right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

4. The Legal Right of Privacy
Four Aspects:
Protection from unreasonable intrusion upon one’s isolation (Web surfing)
Protection from appropriation of one’s name or likeness (identity theft)
Protection from unreasonable publicity placing one in a false light (publishing false information about an individual
Protection from unreasonable publicity given to one’s private life. (medical records)

5. Definition of Privacy A human value that consists of;
Right to control external influences
Right to be alone
Right to have no public personal identity
Right not to be monitored
Right to control personal information
Reserve the right to control one’s personal information including methods of dissemination of that information.

6. Violations of Privacy Violated through: Intrusion
Misuse of information
Interception of information
Information matching
Consumer profiling is a threatening technology, and is dependent for its raw material on the seizing of personal data.
Information Matching is the comparison of personal information held in one set of records with personal information held in another set of records for the purpose of producing or verifying information about an individual

7. Intrusion Wrongful entry Seizing possessions
Hacking would follow this category
Intrusion second to software piracy in computer crime

8. Misuse of Information Information is given to:
Government
Business
Problem when used for unauthorized purposes
Examples?

9. Interception of Information
Eavesdropping
Individual listen or record
Tapping communication channels and listening

10. Information Matching
Matching information in several databases and releasing the information
Can be outdated or erroneous information that is matched.

11. Freedom of Information Act
Passed in 1966
Amended in 1974
Gives the public access to certain government records.
Two parts
Outlines the info that government agencies are required to publish.
Outlines the process to review the records

12. Fair Credit Reporting Act – 1970 Privacy Act of 1974
Regulates credit reporting bureaus.
Privacy Act of 1974
Limits how the U.S. government collects, maintains, uses, and disseminates personal information.

13. Freedom of Information
Electronic Communication Privacy Act – 1986
Extends the prohibitions against the unauthorized interception of electronic communication.

14. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act - 1994
Required telephone companies to provide a certain level of government access to data.

15. HIPPA The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
– requires health care organizations to implement cost-effective procedures for exchanging medical data.

16. Privacy and Anonymity
Data Encryption (Cryptography) is the science of encoding messages so that only the sender and receiver can understand them.
Public key system uses two keys to encode and decode messages.
Private key system uses a single key to both encode and decode

17. Treating Consumer Information Responsibly
Code of Fair Information Practices
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development privacy guidelines
Chief Privacy Officers
Establish corporate data privacy policies and initiatives

18. Privacy in the Workplace
Many organizations have set policies on the use of information technology.
78% of major U.S. firms record and review employee communications and activities.
Phone calls s
Internet connections
Computer files
Videotaping

19. Honesty and Trust Honesty is the best policy – mother was right
If you aren’t honest with the rest of the world, how can you hope to be honest with yourself???
Business from startup to retirement based on ethical principles
Be a model of honest behavior yourself
Monkey-see, monkey-do world
“Ethical businesses attract ethical people”

20. Honesty and Trust cont’d
Legendary entrepreneur Warren Buffet put it this way: “Trust is like the air we breathe. When it's present, nobody really notices. But when it's absent, everybody notices."