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Computer Privacy and Data Protection: Understanding the Implications and Challenges, Slides of Applications of Computer Sciences
The importance of computer privacy, the origins of privacy laws, and the continuing issues surrounding privacy in the digital age. Topics include the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information, threats to privacy, and potential solutions. Real-life examples of privacy concerns are provided, such as customer profile exchange, web sites for personal information, and electronic surveillance.
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Computer Privacy andComputer Matching
“Privacy is the right to be leftalone.”Justice Louis D. Brandeis,U.S. Supreme Court
Why is Privacy Important? • Basis of democracy• Basis of intimacy and trust• Autonomy is inconceivable without
privacy
- What we keep private or make public
defines us to others
Origins of Privacy • First Amendment on freedom of speech• Fourth Amendment proscribing
unreasonable search and seizure,security of your home, person, papers,and effects
- General desire of founding fathers to
limit the power of government
What’s Available? Informationon: •^
Long distancecalls
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Social Security no.
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Property holdings
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Financial dealings
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Credit histories
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Salary
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Credit cardpurchases
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Air travel
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Stocks and bondholdings
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Life insurance
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Traffic tickets
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Address
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Telephone no.
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Medical records
Privacy is Threatened in WaysNever Before Possible • Massive and numerous databases• Computer matching technologies are
better
- Ubiquitous data collection and easy
access
- Powerful data gathering and analytical
tools
- No constitutional protection for privacy!
- Data accuracy, completeness,
ambiguousness is hard to check andmaintain and correct, especially whentext is eliminated
- Data is retained for long periods• Organizations are bigger
Customer Profile Exchange(CPEX) •^
Standard for customer data sharingthat combines on line/off line data
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Twenty-five members
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Designed to implement individualmarketing
Web Sites for Searching PersonalInformation •^
www.555-
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www.bigbook.com
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www.bigfoot.com
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www.databaseamerica.com
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www.four11.com
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www.infospace.com
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www.switchboard.com
•^
www.whowhere.com
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www.yahoo.com/search/people
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www.1800ussearch.com
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www.knowx.com
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www.reunion.com
Federal Government •^
Largest collector
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Federal Intrusion Detection Act
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Telecommunications Act
Others • Lexis-Nexis P-Trak
- Dropped SS#– names, addresses, maiden name, mother’s name
- Massachusetts is putting medical law
suit histories on line
- Source Informatics collects data from
pharmacies on sales for sales reps
- Strict limits on exemptions from these
safeguards
- Civil suits for data misuse are permitted