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CSE 303
Concepts and Tools for
Software Development
Richard C. Davis
UW CSE – 10/30/2006
Social Implications Discussion 2 –
Privacy
Administravia
• Richard's office hours
– Today 4:15 - 6:00 in CSE 210
• Review session
– Tonight 6-8PM in EEB-045
– Come with questions!
• Note on Assignment
– This used to be a Microsoft interview question
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Today
• Privacy
– Short lecture
– Group Discussion
• Divide into groups for 20 minutes
• Discuss the question
• Pick a person to report back
– Whole class discussion
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Origins of "The Right to Privacy"
• William Brandeis: The Right to Privacy
– 1890: To protect against tabloid journalism
– "…in very early times, … the "right to life"
served only to protect the subject from battery
in its various forms.…Later, there came a
recognition of man's spiritual nature, of his
feelings and his intellect…. and now the right
to life has come to mean the right to enjoy life,
-- the right to be left alone."
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Privacy: A Technological Problem
• 1890 Problem
– Photography and recording devices
– "Gossip" industry
• Today's problem
– Our private information in databases
• Government: (taxes, voter registration,
immigration, dept. of motor vehicles, etc.)
• Corporations: (medical databases, employers,
vendor data, etc.)
– Cheap storage/Data mining to process data
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Privacy Violation Example
Medical
Data
Voter
Registration
•
Date of Birth
Zip
Problem
1956
98115
Heart
1929
98335
Cholesterol
1975
98115
Flu
1963
98335
Diabetes
Name
Zip
Date of Birth
John Doe
98115
1956
Jane Doe
98335
1963
From Samartati and Sweeney '98
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Other Recent Examples?
• Google data given to researchers
– New York Times used to identify people
• Many laptops with personal data lost
– Large scale identity theft possible
• Rep. Mark Foley instant messages
• Government telephone/e-mail surveillance
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Contradictory Goals
• Sharing and analyzing information helps
– Discover trends & understand patterns
– Improve customer service
– Understand disease propagation
– Identify criminal activity
• But it endangers privacy
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Views Differ
• Privacy from Whom
– U.S.A. : Privacy from Government
– Europe: Privacy from Corporations
• Personal cost is the issue
– "Should the government be allowed to read e-mails
and listen to phone calls to fight terrorism?"
• 33% Yes (original text)
• 22% Yes (if text said "your e-mails" and "your phone calls")
– 2002 - Pew Research Center for People and the Press
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Today's Question
• You have been unemployed for a year and you
are sinking into debt.
• You have just been offered a web development
job at a popular financial institution.
• Your personal responsibilities would include
extending the web site's ability to collect and
manage customer's personal information.
• Like most companies, this company sells some
data to other companies.
• Would you take this job?
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Next Time
• Midterm Exam
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