Privacy

1
Privacy

• There is an indirect relationship between privacy
  and security. In light of recent events, this has
  come to the forefront of public concern.
• Methods used to violate privacy
• Eavesdropping
• Torture
• Search and seizure

2
Privacy (cont. 1)

• What about storage of information?
• What about passports?
• What about toll booths?
• Privacy became a hot topic in the 1880s when
  telephones were introduced in the US.
• Phone tapping began simultaneously with the intro
  of the phone (police and individuals).

3
Privacy (cont. 2)

• Why did the phone make privacy a hot topic and
  not the telegraph (or for that matter, mail)?
• 1920s introduced the polygraph (lie detector).
  Used by employers, not just law enforcement!
  (Psychological surveillance)
• At the same time, personality/aptitude tests. Ex.
  Multiple choice, word association, sentence
  completion, etc (psychological surveillance)

4
Privacy (cont. 3)

• Today, computerization has made it possible to
  analyze enormous amounts of info
• Does this sound like George Orwells 1984?
  Before answering this, remember, the greatest
  trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us he
  does not exist.

5
Privacy (cont. 4)

• Some interesting research
• Covert polygraph measures
• New truth drug research
• Possibilities of reading emotional states
  currently opened by computer readings of brain
  wave responses.
• Thesis Personal privacy has been eroding since
  1850s(second industrial revolution).

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Privacy (cont. 5)

• What would be a good metric to argue for the
  previous thesis?
• We now not only have physical and psychological
  surveillance, but also data surveillance.