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1. Small group discussions over homework:
2. Notes: Marketing, GPS, government systems.
3. Homework for next time -
Feb 11 - (daily homework, in notes, not typed unless you want to):
1. Small group discussions over homework:
a) Against company policy, an employee put AOL search query data on a site for search technology researchers. There were more than 20 million queries from 650,000 people spanning 3 months. It identified people by code ID numbers, not by name. However, it was not difficult to deduce the identity of some people, especially those who searched their own names and addresses. Re-identification identified others. Which of the Fair Information Principles, if any, did AOL’s release of user search queries (2.1.2) violate?
b)What restrictions should we place on the government regarding new tech use? When should we permit government agencies to use them without a search warrant?
c)Should organizers at events which are possible terrorist targets use facial recognition systems? Should we allow them to screen for people with unpaid parking tickets?
c)Should organizers at events which are possible terrorist targets use facial recognition systems? Should we allow them to screen for people with unpaid parking tickets?
2. Notes: Marketing, GPS, government systems.
3. Homework for next time -
Feb 11 - (daily homework, in notes, not typed unless you want to):
a) A member of the Tampa City Council described the camera and face recognition system installed in a neighborhood as “a public safety tool, no different from having a cop walking around with a mug shot.” Is he right? What are the similarities and differences, relevant to privacy, between those two situations?
b)A disgruntled employee of a county health department sent a confidential file containing the names of about 4,000 AIDS patients to a newspaper. What are some ways to prevent such leakages of information?
c)Is there information that you have posted to the Web that you later removed? Why did you remove it? Were there consequences to posting the information? Have you seen information that others have posted about themselves that you would not reveal about yourself? Why post personal issues? Is that goal met?
Finish the weekly paper which will be due next class (Feb 10). This is the typed one! Paper specifications can be found here.
If you have the book, begin reading chapter 3.
Please email potasznik@cs.umb.edu with any questions.
