MGCR 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Dumpster Diving, Wi-Fi, Ciphertext

• School: McGill University
• Department: Management Core
• Course: MGCR 331
• Professor: Sean Sutherland

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Sessio(cid:374) (cid:1006)(cid:1005) ethics, privacy & i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) security / nov. (cid:1005)8. Information security and threats: protecting information resources. Tjx: the worst data breach ever: 16b retail conglomerate, 2500 stores worldwide, including winners and homesense stores in canada, credit card information of 46 million customers compromised. Illegal what is unethical is not necessarily illegal. Facebook: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=wogttqs8kzw (4min: court decisions have followed 2 rules: Your privacy must be balanced against the needs of society. The public"s right to know is superior to the individual"s right of privacy. Threats to privacy: data aggregators, profiling, and digital dossiers lexisnexis, acxicom, choicepoint, electronic surveillance, personal information in databases canada border services agency, mcgill, hydro. Quebec, bell, rogers, blue croee, bmo, services de l"assurance automobile du qu bec. Information on internet facebook, linkedin, youtube, flickr, twitter, myspace. com. Do you have privacy: video: pizza delivery -- http://www. aclu. org/pizza/images/screen. swf, additional surveillance slides: http://images. businessweek. com/ss/05/07/surveillance/index_01. htm http://www. auburn. edu/~rainerk/surveillance. ppt. Privacy codes & policies: 2 approaches, opt-out model, opt-in model.