Difference between law and ethics
– individual standard vs. societal
– No external arbiter and enforcement unlike law
– Examples – What do you do when you discover a vulnerability in a commercial product? Ethical disclosure?
– Code of ethical conduct(IEEE, ACM, university)
Privacy
Definition: A user’s ability to control how data pertaining to him/her can be collected, used and shared by someone else.
Privacy is not a new problem
– people have always worried about what others(friends, enemies, governments) might know about what they do.
– Scale and magnitude at which information about us and our activities can be collected, ways in which it can be used, and shared or sold.
Privacy
– financial statements, credit card statements, banking records etc.
– Health/medical conditions
– legal matters
– biometrics
– political benefits
– school and employer records
– web browsing habits? what do we search, what do we browse? websites we visit?
– Communication(emails and calls)
– Past history(right to be forgotten)
What is not private?
Where i live? my citizenship?
i am registered to vote?
My salary(state employee because Georgia Tech is a public university)
