Privacy

Question 1

Define Privacy

Answer 1

Privacy is the faculty and right that a person has to define, preserve and control the boundaries that limit the extent to which the rest of society can interact or intrude. At the same time, he or she retains full control over information generated by and related to him or her.

Question 2

under article 8 when can a citizen’s privacy be violated?

Answer 2

society in the interests of national
security, public safety or the economic well-being of
the country,

Question 3

Privacy is related

Answer 3

to self-possession,

autonomy, and integrity

Question 4

what is a Panopticon

Answer 4

The concept of the design is to allow a single
watchman to observe (-opticon) all (pan-)
inmates of an institution without the inmates
being able to tell whether or not they are
being watched.
• Designed for Prisons
• inmates cannot know when they are being
watched
• all inmates must act as though they are
watched at all times

Question 5

Why would people want privacy?

Answer 5

To avoid. . .
– incorrect conclusions, resulting from deliberate
or accidental errors in the data, or
misinterpretations, or prejudice
– blackmail or extortion, or other abuse of power
– commercial pestering (spam)
• Privacy concerns all aspects of life, including
past relationships, political views, financial
affairs, past deeds, and also the trivia of
everyday life

Question 6

argument against privacy

Answer 6

people might
– abuse privacy to do bad things. . .
– commit fraud, evade taxes
– trade in child pornography images
– commit terrorism, to kill or injure without being
detected
– commandeer a botnet to take down Google

Question 7

List Westin’s categories

Answer 7

Fundamentalist, Pragmatic, Unconcerned

Question 8

List Privacy Threat Levels

Answer 8

• Level 1 – Irritating
• Level 2 – Infuriating
• Level 3 – Devastating

Question 9

what is a Level 1 threat

Answer 9

• A Slow but manageable leak of personal information, behavior and geographic location
• Public cameras, licence plate reading cameras
• Location-based services
– Post where you’ve been, not where you are
– Set privacy settings
- cookies
- prism

Question 10

what is a Level 2 threat

Answer 10

• Deeply personal and potentially financial‚ yet
ultimately repairable .

• Whole body scanners
• Stolen Databases
• Mobile Phone Hacking
• Wi-Fi Hacking

Question 11

what is a Level 3 threat

Answer 11

• Psychological	and	physical	Threats, oppressive Orwellian	Intrusion	
• GPS car	tracking
• Trolls
• Cyberstalking
• Aware Home/Ubiquitous	
Computing