diff -r abe178b3197e -r 11b46fa92a85 handouts/ho07.tex --- a/handouts/ho07.tex Thu Nov 05 02:11:13 2015 +0000 +++ b/handouts/ho07.tex Thu Nov 05 03:57:27 2015 +0000 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ \usepackage{../graphics} \begin{document} -\fnote{\copyright{} Christian Urban, 2014} +\fnote{\copyright{} Christian Urban, 2014, 2015} \section*{Handout 7 (Privacy)} @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ print (or better the link ``About us'') reveals they set up their organisation so that they can also shamelessly sell the email addresses they ``harvest''. Everything is of course very -legal\ldots{}moral?\ldots{}well that is in the eye of the +legal\ldots{}ethical?\ldots{}well that is in the eye of the beholder. See: \url{http://www.ucas.com/about-us/inside-ucas/advertising-opportunities} @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ On the other hand I would be very irritated if anybody I do not know had a too close look on my private live---it shouldn't be anybody's business. The reason is that knowledge -about my private life usually is used against me. As mentioned +about my private life can often be used against me. As mentioned above, public location data might mean I get robbed. If supermarkets build a profile of my shopping habits, they will use it to \emph{their} advantage---surely not to \emph{my} @@ -132,7 +132,10 @@ history data there is, since recently, a law that allows you to check what information is held about you for determining your creditworthiness. But this concerns only a very small -part of the data that is held about me/you. +part of the data that is held about me/you. Also +what about cases where data is wrong or outdated (but do we +need a right-to be forgotten). + To see how private matter can lead really to the wrong conclusions, take the example of Stephen Hawking: When he was @@ -253,11 +256,12 @@ published data. He was left with data that included all ``special'' DNA-markers of the individuals present in the original mixture. He essentially deleted the - ``background noise'' in the published data. The - problem with DNA data is that it is of such a high - resolution that even if the mixture contained maybe 100 - individuals, you can now detect whether an individual - was included in the mixture or not. + ``background noise'' in the published data. The problem + with DNA data is that it is of such a high resolution + that even if the mixture contained maybe 100 + individuals, you can with current technology detect + whether an individual was included in the mixture or + not. This result changed completely how DNA data is nowadays published for research purposes. After the success of @@ -342,9 +346,9 @@ of Information Law the taxicab dataset of New York and someone else showed how easy it is to mine for private information: -\begin{center} -\begin{tabular}{p{0.8\textwidth}} -\url{http://chriswhong.com/open-data/foil_nyc_taxi/}\\ +\begin{center}\small +\begin{tabular}{p{0.78\textwidth}} +\url{http://chriswhong.com/open-data/foil_nyc_taxi/}\smallskip\\ \url{http://research.neustar.biz/2014/09/15/riding-with-the-stars-passenger-privacy-in-the-nyc-taxicab-dataset} \end{tabular} \end{center} @@ -359,7 +363,7 @@ \end{center} \noindent An article that analyses privacy and shopping habits -from a more economic point is available from: +from a more economic point of view is available from: \begin{center} \url{http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/privacy.economics.pdf}