Privacy: Theory and Practice

A. Practical Aspects of Privacy

1. What kind of personal information needs protection?

2. Who has control over your personal information? What are the consequences?

3. What kind of personal info that was not readily available before is now made available or created by new technologies?

4. Can you remove info about yourself from Google?
http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html

5. We often sacrifice privacy in exchange of ________ (list 3 different answers).

6. Privacy Literacy Exercise: Have you tried any of these to protect your privacy?
http://www.privacyjournal.net/bio.htm

7. Is Big Brother in your shopping cart? RFID controversy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID
http://www.spychips.com/rfid_overview.html

8. Will Google become our Big Brother?
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/googles-photo-face-recognition-is-wow-marketing/?ref=technology#comment-31428

B. Theoretical Aspects of Privacy:

1. Why do we need privacy? Is privacy a human right?

2. A tale of two cities -- both full of surveillance cameras.

http://www.earthcam.com/
http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html

City No. 1: All the cameras report the urban scenes to Police Central.

City No. 2: Every citizen can call up images from any camera in town.

Which is better? Why?

C. Web cam as self expression
1996 JenniCam
http://web.archive.org/web/19980514225633/jennicam.org/gallery/index8.html