Free%20Cookies%20and%20Other%20Security%20and%20Privacy%20Issues

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Free Cookies and Other Security and Privacy Issues
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Objectives

• Computers and Privacy
• Clipper chip
• Data communications, database access, money
  transfer
• Protection of computers
• Privacy rights

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Need for information vs. right to privacy

• Cashless society
• Perception of timeliness
• Up-to-date information
• Right to privacy not explicit
• What does privacy mean?
• credit checks
• mailing lists
• targeting

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Wiretapping and the Clipper chip

• Should the government be able to decipher your
  encrypted communications?

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E-mail

• E-mail does not belong to you. (Yours belongs to
  BSU.)
• This is not true of US Postal Service.
• Should the owner of a machine be responsible for
  what is stored on it?

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Record Matching

• Using information in separate dBs and matching on
  some key like SSN

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Money

• Credit Reporting
• Error-filled
• EFT -- Electronic Funds Transfer
• Automatic deposit, ATM, credit card, etc.
• This is the trail of your life!
• Should these private collections be licensed and
  controlled?

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Security

• Two meanings
• Access
• password
• badge/card
• shut down machine/account when not there

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Security

• Safety
• UPS--uninterrupted power supply
• surge protection
• off-site backups
• mirroring
• disaster recovery plan

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Networks

• Intranet and Internet
• Firewall protection -- puts up a wall between
  your LAN and the Internet
• Internet Server Logs
• Internet Cookies
• Encryption and Certificates
• Should you accept cookies from strangers?

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Viruses

• Protection -- buy a good virus checker and update
  it regularly.

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Law

• You have the right to correct your credit record.
  You don not need to pay someone to do this.
• You can ask the govt what they know about you.
  (However, you have to be pretty specific.)
• Federal agencies and databases are subject to
  regulations, but not private individuals and info
  stores.

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Summary

• Computers and Privacy
• Clipper chip
• Data communications, database access, money
  transfer
• Protection of computers
• Privacy rights

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Questions?