Transcript Internet Privacy - lawrencebrinson

Internet Privacy:
What’s Yours and What Never
Was
BRINSON
Street Law
Let’s Review…
• What is a copyright?
– Protects original expressions, not ideas
– Life of the author + 70 years
– Gives the holder a set of certain rights
• What is the Google Library Project?
– What’s the problem with it?
What does privacy mean to you?
• On Facebook?
• In your email?
• What about your chats?
A HELPFUL VENN DIAGRAM
THE INTERNET
YOUR PRIVACY
What do you put on the internet?
• How many of you use Facebook?
– Twitter? Blogger? Other social network we’re not
cool enough to know about?
– Gmail?
– Google?
Let’s learn some terms.
• Cookies
– When you visit a website, certain information is
exchanged between your computer and that
website. It is stored on your computer, and on the
server of the website, in small ‘packets’ of
information called cookies.
Terms, continued
• Metadata
– Data about data…
One last term..
• IP Address
– Internet Protocol Address
– Numerical label assigned to each device participating
in a network
– “A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates
where it is. A route indicates how to get there.”
-DARPA
What’s private on Facebook?
• Well… That depends on what
you see as ‘private’.
• Facebook has the right to use,
store, and retain for ‘an
extended period’ of time...
– Your status updates
– Your pictures
– Your videos
– Your links
– Your events or groups
– Your comments on other
people’s content
– Your wall posts (your own and
those you make)
– Your notes
– Your chats
– Your messages
What does this mean for you?
• Facebook's Privacy Policy
• Be careful. You never know what sort of job
you might want in the future, or what the
laws will look like 5, 10, 20 years from now.
What about Google?
• First, let’s talk a little about what Google
owns. (A WHOLE LOT!!!)
– YouTube, AOL, Picasa, Android, DoubleClick, and
89 other companies (internet marketing, service
providers, search engines and social networks)
Google, continued
• Google's Privacy Policy
• What does Google know about you?
– Well, it turns out quite a lot.
– EVERY piece of information they collect is opt-out.
– Information you provide, cookies, log information,
user communications, etc., etc., etc.
Let’s see where you guys stand on
privacy. Literally.
• Instructions:
– Mr. Brinson will read a series of statements.
– If you agree, stand near Ms. Mac’s desk.
– If you disagree, stand near the door.
– If you fall somewhere in the middle, stand
somewhere in the middle.
Statement One
• If I meet someone new that I might be
interested in, I Google them or search for
them on Facebook.
• OR, I’ve Googled myself.
Statement Two
• I am comfortable with everyone in this class
knowing my last ten searches on Google.
– My last fifteen?
– What about everything I’ve searched in the last
year?
Statement Three
• I am totally comfortable with other people
tagging and posting photos and comments of
me on Facebook.
Statement Four
• I am comfortable with data mining about me
so I can get targeted advertisements on my
email and on the sidebars of websites like
Facebook.
Statement Five
• I agree with everything I’ve posted on the
internet in the last three years, and I’m
comfortable with colleges and employers
seeing everything I’ve posted.
This is bound to stir up some controversy,
right?
The Winklevoss Twins
John Kerry (Mass.- D) John McCain (Ariz.- R.)
The moral of the story
• Educate yourself.
• Think before you type something into the
Internet. Once it’s out there, you can NEVER
take it back.
Tomorrow…
1. It’s Friday!
2. We start Mock Trial prep!