2. Contents
• What is Privacy?
• Your Information and Your Privacy
• Government Laws and Regulations
• Conclusion
• Discussion
3. What is Privacy?
• Defining privacy…
• A complex idea that encompasses a number of
concepts
• An innate desire supported by anthropological and
historical evidence
• Uncle Sam…
• The revolutionary war and the people vs. the
government
• Collecting personal information , mail, and telegraph
communications
4. Scenario
A woman and her boyfriend are sitting next to each other.
They’re watching TV.
She pulls out her phone and begins to scroll through her Facebook feed.
Her boyfriend looks over and stares at her phone screen as she scrolls through.
She notices, she gets upset and she says…
YOU ARE VIOLATING MY RIGHT TO PRIVACY…
5. But has he violated her right to
privacy?
Or was he insensitive to her privacy
interests?
Or….?
What do you think?
6. Your Information and Your Privacy
• First things first…
• Privacy through Security
• Privacy through stopping, thinking, and connecting
• What if it fails? Has my privacy been violated?
• In a sense, yes…
• But in a sense, no…
• Is the government violating my right to privacy?
• Let’s talk about the claimed ongoing domestic
surveillance
7. Government and Regulations
• FISA – The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978
• Amendments Act of 2008
• Privacy Act – The Privacy Act of 1974
• Amendment: The Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988
• FOIA – Freedom of Information Act of 1966
• Yesterday’s FCC rule reversal…
8. Conclusion
• Privacy is more than just one concept or one idea
• Privacy can be achieved by censoring your information, and securing your
information
• Complete privacy cannot be guaranteed, however.
• The government has several rules, laws and acts concerning information but only
1 is specific to privacy
9. Discussion
• What is your opinion on the reversal of the FCC rules
from the Obama administration?
• In your opinion, why was the public outcry about
domestic surveillance much greater than the outcry
about dissemination of public information?
• What would you like to see change with regards to
privacy laws and regulations?
Start off with
Introduction -> what privacy means to us, computers and privacy, right to privacy and if it exists?
Your devices and your privacy-> how to help secure and ensure your privacy
Government laws and regulations -> how they control privacy and what is private and not private, the recent change in laws *yesterdayyyy = ISP info can now be sold to anyone
Conclusion
Discussion
The term “privacy” is used frequently in ordinary language as well as in philosophical, political and legal discussions, yet there is no single definition or analysis or meaning of the term. The concept of privacy has broad historical roots in sociological and anthropological discussions about how extensively it is valued and preserved in various cultures.
It is innate, it is in culture. Examples of privacy in secluded homes, private ceremonies with restricted access, WALLS, LOCKS, DOORS = privacy,
There remains confusion over the meaning, value and scope of the concept of privacy.
Revolutionary war = central issue was freedom from the govt. The founders detested the use of general warrants and how they results in ransacking and seizure of items without any evidence
Distaste of government power led to the creation of the 3rd, 4th and 5th amendments…3rd = home, 4th being broad on govt limitations, 5th so you aren’t forced to testify about incriminating information
Census = 4 questions in 1790 grew to 142(personal) in 1860 even put in public areas to be checked then stopped in 1870. Privacy laws on census information followed in 1919…. A long time later.
Mail difficult to seal, swear an oath not to open => further confirmed in the fourth amendment (one reason it was so broad)
Telegraph, after civil war congress wantd to access telegraph messages by western union
