Current Issues

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Current Issues

• Week 14 - November 30, December 2

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Administrivia

• Class on Thursday will be for assembling posters
  - if your poster is done you dont have to attend
• Poster fair Friday 3-5 pm, NSH Atrium
• Arrive early to setup
• Invite your friends
• Cookies!
• TA evaluations

3
Brian video

• What do you think?

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Use of drug/bomb sniffing dogs

• http//www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-
  na-scotus11nov11,0,3799193.story?collla-home-nati
  on
• Justice OConnor A dog sniff is not a search.
• Assistant AG Wray "There is no intrusion on the
  privacy of the owner, and therefore no search."
• Justice Scalia This is not a new technology.
  This is a dog.
• Justice Souter Why can't police go up to the
  front door of every house on the street? When the
  homeowner comes to the door, the dog could sniff
  for drugs inside.
• Under what conditions should dogs be permitted to
  sniff?
• What if it was a new technology?

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Pop quiz

• http//www.cdt.org/privacy/quiz/

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P3P Quiz

• Website GreatWidgets.com uses a third-party
  service provider ShopHelp.com to run a shopping
  cart service that allows customers to purchase
  widgets on their website. The ShopHelp service
  places third-party cookies on the GreatWidgets
  web site. After Microsoft rolled out IE6,
  GreatWidgets started getting complaints from some
  of their customers that the shopping cart
  function was no longer working. After reading an
  article about P3P, the GreatWidgets webmaster
  wondered whether the new IE6 privacy settings
  might be causing the shopping cart problem. She
  consulted with the GreatWidgets Chief Privacy
  Officer and created a P3P policy for GreatWidgets
  and posted it on the site. She also created a P3P
  policy reference file and posted it at the
  well-known location on the GreatWidgets web site.
  However, the customer complaints about shopping
  cart failures did not end. What would you
  suggest to the webmaster that she try next to
  solve the problem?