Balancing Privacy and Surveillance
Description
Government agencies want to identify criminals and disruptive elements before they can act. Commercial entities want to better understand potential customers. In both cases, greater monitoring and data analysis can provide answers to questions such as “Is she going to commit a robbery?” and “What does he want to buy?” The downside to this is that extensive surveillance and analysis also catches lots of material that is innocent…and that we don’t want to share.
In this talk I’ll discuss some of the tradeoffs we see in personal privacy and increased surveillance. I’ll also outline some of the approaches that have been suggested as means to limit surveillance and regain control over (parts of) our personal privacy.
Location
STEW214AB
Start Date
9-24-2015 1:30 PM
DOI
10.5703/1288284315979
Balancing Privacy and Surveillance
STEW214AB
Government agencies want to identify criminals and disruptive elements before they can act. Commercial entities want to better understand potential customers. In both cases, greater monitoring and data analysis can provide answers to questions such as “Is she going to commit a robbery?” and “What does he want to buy?” The downside to this is that extensive surveillance and analysis also catches lots of material that is innocent…and that we don’t want to share.
In this talk I’ll discuss some of the tradeoffs we see in personal privacy and increased surveillance. I’ll also outline some of the approaches that have been suggested as means to limit surveillance and regain control over (parts of) our personal privacy.
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