Transcript Online Privacy Issues Overview - Lorrie Faith Cranor

Current Issues
Week 14 - November 30,
December 2
Privacy Policy, Law and Technology • Carnegie Mellon University • Fall 2004 • Lorrie Cranor • http://lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa04/
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Administrivia
Class on Thursday will be for assembling
posters - if your poster is done you don’t
have to attend
Poster fair Friday 3-5 pm, NSH Atrium
Arrive early to setup
Invite your friends
Cookies!
TA evaluations
Privacy Policy, Law and Technology • Carnegie Mellon University • Fall 2004 • Lorrie Cranor • http://lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa04/
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Brian video
What do you think?
Privacy Policy, Law and Technology • Carnegie Mellon University • Fall 2004 • Lorrie Cranor • http://lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa04/
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Use of drug/bomb sniffing dogs
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-nascotus11nov11,0,3799193.story?coll=la-home-nation
 Justice O’Connor: “A dog sniff is not a search.”
 Assistant AG Wray: "There is no intrusion [on the privacy of the
owner], and therefore no search."
 Justice Scalia: “This is not a new technology. This is a
dog.”
 Justice Souter: “Why can't police go up to the front door
of every house on the street? When the homeowner
comes to the door, the dog could sniff for drugs inside.”
 Under what conditions should dogs be permitted to sniff?
 What if it was a new technology?
Privacy Policy, Law and Technology • Carnegie Mellon University • Fall 2004 • Lorrie Cranor • http://lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa04/
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Pop quiz
http://www.cdt.org/privacy/quiz/
Privacy Policy, Law and Technology • Carnegie Mellon University • Fall 2004 • Lorrie Cranor • http://lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa04/
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P3P Quiz
 Website GreatWidgets.com uses a third-party service provider
ShopHelp.com to run a shopping cart service that allows customers
to purchase widgets on their website. The ShopHelp service places
third-party cookies on the GreatWidgets web site. After Microsoft
rolled out IE6, GreatWidgets started getting complaints from some
of their customers that the shopping cart function was no longer
working. After reading an article about P3P, the GreatWidgets
webmaster wondered whether the new IE6 privacy settings might be
causing the shopping cart problem. She consulted with the
GreatWidgets Chief Privacy Officer and created a P3P policy for
GreatWidgets and posted it on the site. She also created a P3P
policy reference file and posted it at the well-known location on the
GreatWidgets web site. However, the customer complaints about
shopping cart failures did not end. What would you suggest to the
webmaster that she try next to solve the problem?
Privacy Policy, Law and Technology • Carnegie Mellon University • Fall 2004 • Lorrie Cranor • http://lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa04/
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