Benjamin Gerber
Abstract
I often lead discussions and give presentations where I need to get the audience in the mindset to start thinking about privacy in a way to which they could personally relate, understand others' privacy expectations, and discover for themselves that privacy is about more than just technical security controls for personally identifiable information (PII). Below are an approach and an exercise I took my audience through in a few presentations last year; they both have been well received and I think others might find them useful.
- Peter Eckersley posted an excellent, easy to follow, explanation of this in January on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's blog: "A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/primer-information-theory-and-privacyGoogle Scholar
- Alabaster, Jay. (2009). Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil secrets. Retrieved from http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_GOOGLE_DARK_SECRETS?SITE=MTMIS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=national-2008.php&CTIME=2009-05-02-11-39-41Google Scholar
- Now available at http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2009/05/02/old-japanese-maps-on-google-earth-unveil-secrets.html and http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=128400F5D21B0668&p_docnum=1Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Conceptualizing privacy
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