Privacy 2 (draft)

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Privacy 2 (draft)
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Digital Dossier

• The data shadow
• The digital dossier
• Personal accountability

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Persistence of Information

• Communication modes
• Writing
• Speech
• Electronic forms
• E-mail
• V-mail
• IM

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Information Trails

• The present
• The future
• Examples
• DEA sweeps
• Borked!
• Pervasive record keeping

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Building a Datasphere

1. Make data collectible
2. Make data machine readable
3. Build a big database

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One Big Happy Database

• Thomas Watsons 1940s estimate on the need for
  computers joke
• Whats on the web?
• Search engines and their ilk
• Your defense

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Satellite Imagery

• Do satellite images violate privacy? Are they
  illegal?
• Resolution
• Applications
• Tax collections
• Political claims

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Ground Surveillance

• Surveillance cameras
• In malls
• ATMs
• The End of Violence
• Traffic violation control

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Personal Systems

• Webcam
• Nanny cam
• Steve Mann

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Low Cost Personal Devices

• Tracking devices (location)
• Keystroke capturers
• Recording devices

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Employee Monitoring

• Various means are being employed e-mail, phone,
  video, drug testing, psychological profiling
• Is it legal?
• Is it ethical?

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Medicine and Health Care

• The history of medicine and medical history
• Actuarial science
• Genetic determinism
• Nature versus nurture

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The Protection of Medical Information

• The legality of releasing medical records
• Physicians responsibility and the Hippocratic
  Oath
• Is there a need for anonymity

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The Insurance Industry

• Power asymmetry and treatment release forms
• The Medical Information Bureau
• Physicians caught in the middle

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Access to Your Own Medical Information

• State by state laws
• Adoption records

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Computerized Patient Records

• The up side
• The down side

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HIPAA

• The Health Insurance Portability and
  Accountability Act of 1996
• Key Provisions