CSCI 2094 (Computer Science Seminar):
Links for Privacy Discussion

Student-submitted links (to discuss)

• Privacy versus(?) commercial interests:
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/technology/personaltech/how-to-muddy-your-tracks-on-the-internet.html?_r=0
    http://www.wordstream.com/articles/google-privacy-internet-privacy
    
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/technology/17privacy.html?_r=0
    
  • http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428045/the-curious-case-of-internet-privacy/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-06-06
    
  • http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/03/22/three-of-the-internets-biggest-problems-according-to-googles-eric-schmidt/
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/10/eric-schmidt-privacy-stan_n_677224.html
    
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/business/ftc-and-white-house-push-for-online-privacy-laws.html?_r=0
    
• Privacy versus(?) government interests:
  • http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-whistleblower-william-binney-explains-nsa-surveillance-2012-8
    http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-surveillance-in-america-drastically-changed-after-911-2012-8#ixzz24UBX3L6b
    
  • http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/obama-wants-computer-privacy-ruling-overturned/
    

More student-submitted links

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-case-for-a-national-id-card/2013/02/02/49d4fb80-6cb5-11e2-ada0-5ca5fa7ebe79_story.html
  
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57567302-83/china-cyberspies-highlighted-by-schmidt-book-post-report/
  
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57567257-93/twitter-hacking-attacks-may-have-accessed-data-of-250k-users/
  
• http://seattletimes.com/html/technologybrierdudleysblog/2016596657_kindle_fires_smoldering_privac.html
  

My links

• http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/27.14.html#subj3 (Internet resources allow identification of personal genomes via surname inference)
• http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/27.14.html#subj5 (Under pressure, Journal News withdraws gun database, but the mirrors are everywhere)
• http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/27.14.html#subj6 (These People Are Now Sharing Horrible Things About Themselves Thanks to Facebook Search)
• http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/27.14.html#subj8 ("Facebook Graph Search may be a social engineering nightmare")

Quotations / paraphrases

• "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." (Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun, 1999)
• "If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold". (participant in MetaFilter discussion, 2010)
• "This is going on your permanent record!" (Allegedly used by K-12 teachers to threaten generation after generation of students in the pre-digital age. Not much of a threat then. Now?)