Surveillance and Privacy

on the Internet

Presented by

Jill Homes and Marion Barry

Surveillance

• Surveillance Society?

• Types of Surveillance and Who’s Watching?

• Positives and Negatives

Privacy

• Right to Privacy

• How much privacy do we really have - Email?

• Examples

• Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009

Case Study - Facebook

Facebook is undermined by 3principal factors

• Users not acting in a safe manor• Facebook not protecting users

privacy• Third parties seeking out end-

users infomation

Case Study - Facebook

Users disclose too much information and don’t act in a safe manor

• Allowing access to 3rd Party Applictions

• Password protection• Case study

Case Study - Facebook

Facebook doesn’t take adequatesteps to protect privacy

• Facebook is a licensee of TRUSTe privacy program

• TRUSTe• 3rd Party Applications - no

vetting

Case Study - Facebook

Third Parties are actively seeking out end-users information

• 615 results for “how to hack into facebook accounts” on YouTube

• Chris Conley - Facebook Quiz• 5 security breaches in one week

Where to next?

More in-depth research into social networking sites such as facebook, my space, twitter.