Law Enforcement and Government Surveillance

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Law Enforcement and Government Surveillance

• November 27, 2007

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Homework 6

• Pick a software product and use the Microsoft
  Privacy Guidelines to analyze this software.
• List all the applicable guidelines and try to
  determine whether/how the software complies with
  each one by using the software and reading its
  documentation. In the case of violations, what
  changes would you recommend to comply with these
  guidelines.
• Pick a government program designed to gather
  surveillance or intelligence data on US citizens
• Describe the program, including the kind of data
  collected, how it is/was collected, and the
  government's intended use of this data.
• Describe the current status (Is it ongoing or has
  it been terminated? If terminated, is it
  continuing under a new name or in a new form?).
• Describe the privacy concerns raised by the
  program and any protections proposed or put in
  place to mitigate these concerns.

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Preparing a short presentation
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Plan your talk
Research and Communication Skills

• Make an outline of what you want to talk about
• No need to present every detail of your paper
• Your presentation should motivate people who find
  it interesting to read your paper
• Consider the background of your audience
• If they are experts, focus on the details of your
  research and results
• If they are not experts, spend time on background
  and motivating the problem
• Consider how much time you have (10 minutes
  MAXIMUM 5 minutes for questions)

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Structure your talk
Research and Communication Skills

• Outline
• Optional for short talks
• Background and motivation
• Sometimes you may want to lead with this
• Research methodology
• Or system design evaluation
• Results
• You may not have them if this is a work in
  progress
• Related work
• Could also go after background or at end,
  optional for short talks
• Contributions
• Useful in job talk, probably no time in 10-minute
  talk
• Future work
• Optional for short talks

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Making slides
Research and Communication Skills

• Use easy-to-read fonts
• Avoid text lt 20 pt font
• Use a simple slide design, no distracting
  background images
• Use a color scheme with high contrast
• Avoid animation unless it helps illustrate your
  point
• Clipart can help make your points more clear
  and/or memorable, but dont let it distract
• Make figures and tables readable
• Dont make too many slides (1-3 minutes/slide)

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Slide content
Research and Communication Skills

• Are slides lecture notes/handouts?
• For a class or tutorial, slides may double as
  lecture notes
• more content on slides
• For a research presentation, your paper is
  usually the handout
• less content on slides
• Dont try to put everything on the slide
• Dont include text unless you want people to read
  it
• If people are reading your slides they are not
  listening to you
• Keep text short
• Dont put too much math on a slide
• Just include key points, examples, etc.
• A figure may be worth 1000 words

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Prepare
Research and Communication Skills

• Make your slides in advance
• Practice
• Time yourself
• Get feedback from others
• Watch yourself on video
• Make sure you know how to hook your laptop up to
  the projector, change screen resolution, advance
  your slides, etc. (Mac users, bring your
  adaptor!)
• If you need to point to parts of your slides,
  decide if you will use, mouse, stick, laser
  pointer, etc. and bring it with you

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Giving your talk
Research and Communication Skills

• Dress neatly
• Stand up straight, hands out of pockets
• Dont hide behind the podium
• Move around, but not too much
• Keep track of time
• Put your watch on podium, note clock in room,
  watch moderator with time cards, etc.
• Face the audience, look at your audience, not
  just one person
• Project your voice
• Dont talk too fast
• Finish on time (or early!)

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Keeping your audience engaged
Research and Communication Skills

• Convey enthusiasm
• Inject humor
• Tell a story
• Ask the audience questions
• Modulate your voice
• Speak slowly
• Try to prevent your audience from getting lost
• Provide ample background
• Define important terms up front
• Dont get into highly technical details unless
  thats what your audience expects

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Handling questions
Research and Communication Skills

• If you have a strict time limit, leave time for
  questions or avoid taking them
• Answer clarification questions quickly
• Suggest that questions that will require lengthy
  answers be taken off line
• Dont get flustered by critics or questions you
  dont know the answer to
• Stay calm, diffuse the question, keep going

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Announcements

• Please bring your laptop to class on Thursday
  with the IBM P3P editor installed, and come on
  time - we will be doing an in-class activity
• Paper drafts are due on Thursday
• Poster fair is next Tuesday
• Class will be cancelled on Thursday, Dec 6 (use
  the time to work on your project)
• Papers will be due Dec 13 at 10 am (via email and
  hard copy slid under my office door)
• Project presentations will be Monday, Dec 17 1-4
  pm, Porter Hall A22
• presentations should be 8-10 minutes

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