Transcript Privacy

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:
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Eavesdropping
Torture
Search and seizure
Privacy (cont. 1)
What about storage of information?
What about passports?
What about toll booths?
Privacy became a hot topic in the 1880’s
when telephones were introduced in the
US.
Phone tapping began simultaneously with
the intro of the phone (police and
individuals).
Privacy (cont. 2)
Why did the phone make privacy a hot topic and
not the telegraph (or for that matter, mail)?
1920’s 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)
Privacy (cont. 3)
Today, computerization has made it
possible to analyze enormous amounts of
info
Does this sound like George Orwell’s
“1984”? Before answering this, remember,
the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was
convincing us he does not exist.
Privacy (cont. 4)
Some interesting research:
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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 1850’s(second industrial revolution).
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.