Privacy
Jonathan Zittrain
Mollie Van Houweling
 
Lessig
 
It is great for you to show up.  But you will be rewarded appropriately.
We will entertain as many thoughts as possible today.
 
Zittrain
 
Mollie also worked at ICANN longer than she probably wanted to.
 
Privacy is a topic that everyone feels strongly about – but when you get into it, it turns into mush.
 
So, while it is interesting, we don’t have the answers, and thus it isn’t as fun to teach about.
 
Categories of things we don’t like teaching about
 
Specific examples of things we don’t like teaching about
 
Categories of Privacy

collection of personal data
use of personal data
personal environment
vital personal decision
 




Control over…

Police

Finance

People


Collection of personal data

Carnivore; kyllo

Cookies, rfids

Snooping


Use of personal data

DIF/TIA

Price and service discrimination

Identity theft


Personal environment

Humiliating searches

Spam

Spam, cyberstalking


Vital personal decisions

Abortion + birth control

Obtaining a loan

Nuremberg files


 

 

 

 
 
Carnivore – discussion of technology.  Taking government to task for seeing data it may not intentionally want to see – is troublesome
 
Kyollo – thermal imaging case – court ruled expectation of privacy was breached when police used thermal imaging camera and saw marijuana and then got a search warrant
 
But the baseline for regulatable search is shifting as technology shifts.
 
Z
Does it make sense to say we had an equilibrium before the internet?
How easy is it for the cop to intervene?
Kyollo says once imaging is available (and expectations of privacy are lowered) then it will be allright
 
Cookies
            Basic tech discussion
Looks at ABOUT.COM for a cookie demonstration
Privacy policy… of web sites – opt in
Mollie
            “Americans will sell their privacy, bit by bit, for frequent flier miles.”
Z
IRS established DIF formula (regression analysis to spot tax cheats)
An individual FIOAd the DIF formula (govt invoked a National Security defense)
Chilling effect of TIA, DIF – what does it mean?
 
[there is a raging discussion on the right to privacy on how government use of technology – focusing on accountability, abuse – interesting that the folks from Europe are making the strongest case for such a right.  Especially since certain 3 letter agencies have been snooping on communications and other forms of data in Europe for the last 50 years!]
 
Placing tracking tech in razor blade packages – you could inventory the contents of a house with such technology.
 
Audience
 
Conversation shifting to personal information treated as property.
 
Discussion on The Nuremberg Files – web site
 
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