Privacy

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Introduction

• Privacy
• Online Identity Theft
• Prevention of ID Theft
• Surveillance
• Sousveillance

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Privacy

• freedom from unauthorized intrusion state of
  being let alone and able to keep certain esp.
  personal matters to oneself

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Types of Privacy

• Bodily
• Political
• Medical
• Genetic
• Internet
• From corporations
• From government interference

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We lose our privacy when

• Entering sweepstakes / competitions
• In order to have a chance of winning a prize
• Giving personal information to potential
  employers
• We use the Internet
• - leave trails of information
• - computer can reveal web browsers history,
  cache or logs
• - websites also have own logs showing IP address
  and other demographic data

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Cons of giving up Privacy

• Details might be sold to other companies
• Information voluntarily shared is later stolen or
  misused
• - Identity Theft

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• According to 2 studies in July 2003, (Gartner
  Research and Harris Interactive), approximately 7
  million people became victims of identity theft
  in the prior 12 months. That equals 19,178 per
  day, 799 per hour, 13.3 per minute.
• Source Identity Theft Resource Center

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Identity Theft

• Crimes in which someone wrongfully obtains and
  uses another persons personal data in some way
  that involves fraud or deception, typically for
  economic gain.
• Personal data (Social Security Number, Bank
  account, credit card, telephone calling card
  number, etc) are unlink finger print which can
  be used easily.

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Identity Theft

• Some criminals engage in
• Shoulder surfing
• Dumpster driving
• Recently, the Internet has been the most
  appealing place for criminals to obtain
  identifying data such as Password, Banking
  information
• Online Identity Theft
• Phishing bogus website addresses in
  spam email

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Identity Theft

• Online Identity Theft
• - Pharming
• - Vishing Getting details through telephone
  calls
• - Spoof Page voluntary giving out of
  information
• - Keystroke Logging
• - Screen Scrapers
• Source Readers Digest

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Identity Theft

• In 1998 , Congress passed this law and made it as
  a federal crime subject to as many as 15 years
  imprisonment.
• In 2006, according to the Central District Court
  of California
• a man was indicted ,pleaded guilty to federal
  charges and was sentenced to 27 months for
  obtaining private bank account information about
  a insurance companys policy holders and using
  this information to deposits 764,000 in
  counterfeit checks into a bank account he
  established .

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Identity Theft Prevention

• Dont give your personal information unless you
  have reason to trust them
• If you have a credit or debit card, check whether
  you have been receiving the list of transactions
  for the most recent month or reporting period
• Maintain careful records of your banking and
  financial account

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• BREAK

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Surveillance

• The act of monitoring behaviour
• Maybe covert or overt

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Types of Surveillance

• Clinical
• Occurrences of infectious diseases
• Computer
• Spyware
• Natural
• Prevention of crime
• Counter
• Deleting a file
• Government
• Carnivore
• Echelon Spy System
• Inverse (also known as Sousveillance)
• Source http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance

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Sousveillance

• The watched become the watcher

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What is sousveillance?

• Sous watching from below derived from a
  contrasting French word, sur - surveillance
  watching from above (Wikipedia, 2006)
• Recording an activity by a participant in the
  activity
• Originated from Steve Mann, a University of
  Toronto computer engineering professor famous for
  turning himself into a cyborg.

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What is sousveillance?

• Bringing the camera down to the human level
• Physically cameras on people not building
• Hierarchically ordinary citizen taking photos of
  police

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Sousveillance Today?

• Citizen journalism enable one to contribute
  ones voices and views to the worlds knowledge
• Examples
• Global Viral from ABC

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Sousveillance Today?

• Examples
• Virtual China

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Sousveillance Today?

• Examples
• - The Straits Times STOMP
• - Hybrid
• - We want STOMP to become a forum of lively
  discussions - whether the topics are weighty
  national issues or where to get the best bak chor
  mee."

Image from www.stomp.com.sg
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Sousveillance Today?

• Inverse Sousveillance hierarchical
  sousveillance
• Examples
• citizens photographing police abuse

Image http//www.takingitglobal.org/understanding
/socialjustice/abuseofpower
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Why sousveillance?

• To hold authorities to account
• To gather evidence for friends involved in
  confrontations with officials
• To give people a sense of control over the
  constant oversight that take place in the public
  spaces
• To document ones life from ones perspective
• Source New Scientist. (2006, June 24). Reed
  Business Information UK. Vol. 190. I.2557

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How Sousveillance developed?

• The development of portable digital personal
  gadgets
• Camera phone
• Electronic eyeglasses eyetap
• The growth of gift economy

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EyeTap Development Past
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Development of EyeTap - Today
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New Trends of Sousveillance

• World Sousveillance Day
• CARPE 2004

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• Presented by
• Charlotte Ng
• Liu Jia Wen, Carol
• Nashrin Banu
• Raihana Omar
• Siti Zawiyah
• Thu Ha Vo

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