Do we need privacy only for individuals?
Universities, hospitals, charities require privacy and need to protect data of people they serve or have as employees.
Threads to Privacy
-Traffic analsis
-Surveillance
-Linking and making inferences
social media, tracking of web browsing, location aware applications, sometimes we are willing parties.
Privacy Threats to Online Tracking Info
-collection of information about you – with or without your consent?
-Usage – only used for specified purpose you agreed to?
-Information retention – how long can they keep it?
-Information disclosure and sharing -disclosed to only authorized or agreed to parties?
-Privacy policy change – can information collector/holder change to a more lax policy without your agreement?
-Information security – identity and access management, monitoring, secure against various threats we discussed.
