Fair Information Practices

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Fair Information Practices

• September 11, 2007

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Homework 1 discussion

• Collage
• Privacy in the news
• Web cams
• Under what definition or conceptions of privacy
  do these web cams raise privacy concerns?
• What arguments might be made to allow such
  cameras despite these concerns?
• What legal or technological mechanisms might be
  put in place to reduce the privacy risks
  associated with public web cams without removing
  the web cams altogether?
• Privacy in art, literature, advertising, or
  pop-culture
• Any questions about bibliographies or plagiarism?

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Using Library Resources
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CMU Libraries (http//www.library.cmu.edu)
Research and Communication Skills

• Engineering and Science (a.k.a. ES)
• Location Wean Hall, 4th floor
• Subjects Computer Science, Engineering,
  Mathematics, Physics, Science, Technology
• Hunt (CMUs main library)
• Location Its own building (possibly 2nd ugliest
  on campus behind Wean), between Tepper and Baker
• Subjects Arts, Business, Humanities, Social
  Sciences
• Software Engineering Institute (a.k.a. SEI)
• Location SEI Building (4500 Fifth Avenue), 3rd
  floor
• Subjects Security, Software, Technology

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START HERE Cameo
Research and Communication Skills

• Cameo is CMUs online library catalog
• http//cameo.library.cmu.edu/
• Catalogs everything CMU has books, journals,
  periodicals, multimedia, etc.
• Search by key words, author, title, periodical
  title, etc.

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CAMEO Search Result for Cranor
Number of copies and status
Library
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CAMEO Search Result for Solove
Due date
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If its not in Cameo, but you need it today
Local Libraries
Research and Communication Skills

• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
• Two closest locations
• Oakland Practically on campus (4400 Forbes Ave.)
• Squirrel Hill Forbes Murray (5801 Forbes Ave.)
• http//www.carnegielibrary.org/index.html
• University of Pittsburgh Libraries
• 16 libraries! Information science, Engineering,
  Law, Business, etc.
• http//pittcat.pitt.edu/

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If its not in Cameo, and you can wait ILLiad
and E-ZBorrow
Research and Communication Skills

• ILLiad and E-ZBorrow are catalogs of resources
  available for Interlibrary Loan from other
  libraries nationwide (ILLiad) and in Pennsylvania
  (E-ZBorrow)
• Order items online (almost always free)
• Wait for delivery average 10 business days
• Find links to ILLiad and E-ZBorrow online
  catalogs at http//www.library.cmu.edu/Services/IL
  L/

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Other Useful Databases
Research and Communication Skills

• Links to many more databases, journal collections
• Must be accessed on campus or through VPN
• http//www.library.cmu.edu/Search/AZ.html
• Lexis-Nexis
• Massive catalog of legal sources law journals,
  case law, news stories, etc.
• IEEE and ACM journal databases
• IEEE Xplore and ACM Digital Library
• INSPEC database
• Huge database of scientific and technical papers
• JSTOR
• Arts Sciences, Business, Mathematics, Statistics

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And of course
Research and Communication Skills

• Reference librarians are available at all CMU
  libraries, and love to help people find what they
  need just ask!

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Writing a Literature Review
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Writing a literature review
Research and Communication Skills

• What is a literature review?
• A critical summary of what has been published on
  a topic
• What is already known about the topic
• Strengths and weaknesses of previous studies
• Often part of the introduction or a section of a
  research paper, proposal, or thesis
• A literature review should
• be organized around and related directly to the
  thesis or research question you are developing
• synthesize results into a summary of what is and
  is not known
• identify areas of controversy in the literature
• formulate questions that need further research
• Dena Taylor and Margaret Procter. 2004. The
  literature review A few tips on conducting it.
  http//www.utoronto.ca/writing/litrev.html

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Literature review dos and donts
Research and Communication Skills

• Dont create a list of article summaries or
  quotes
• Do point out what is most relevant about each
  article to your paper
• Do compare and contrast the articles you review
• Do highlight controversies raised or questions
  left unanswered by the articles you review
• Do take a look at some examples of literature
  reviews or related work sections before you try
  to create one yourself
• For an example, of a literature review in a CS
  conference paper see section 2 of
  http//cs1.cs.nyu.edu/waldman/publius/paper.html

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Homework 2

• http//cups.cs.cmu.edu/courses/privpolawtech-fa07/
  hw/hw2.html

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Privacy terminology

• Data subject
• Data controller
• Secondary use of data

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OECD fair information principles

• http//www.datenschutz-berlin.de/gesetze/internat/
  ben.htm
• Collection limitation
• Data quality
• Purpose specification
• Use limitation
• Security safeguards
• Openness
• Individual participation
• Accountability

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US FTC simplified principles

• Notice and disclosure
• Choice and consent
• Data security
• Data quality and access
• Recourse and remedies
• US Federal Trade Commission, Privacy Online A
  Report to Congress (June 1998),
  http//www.ftc.gov/reports/privacy3/