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US PRIVACY LAW OF SOFTWARE

AND ANONYMITY

technology has changed dramatically in the

last 20 years but the law has not said center fordemocracy and technology (CDT) public policy

vice president Jim Dempsey.

Judicial warrant

ECPA (Electronic Communication Privacy Act)


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Cloud

Police should need warrants signed by judges to

get email, pictures, location information , and

videos

Outdated ECPA contains, unclear or inconsistent

references that creates confusion between

costumer and law enforcement.

http://www.physorg.com/news189234292.html

US PRIVACY LAW OF SOFTWARE

AND ANONYMITY (CONT.)


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Data Collection Principles

1. Insofar as the Confederation has the necessary

data available or that such data becomes

available to an organization subject to this Act inthe implementation of federal law (federal

administrative data), separate surveys need not

be conducted by federal statistical bodies (direct

surveys, indirect surveys or surveys based onobservations and measurements).


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2. In the event that the data required by federal

statistical bodies on third parties is available

from cantonal or communal agencies or from

other entities of the public law, such data mustbe collected from said agencies or entities

(indirect survey).

3. Direct surveys require the collection of new

data at source by interviewing natural personsand legal entities for the sole purposes of this

Act. The number and type of surveys are limited

to what is strictly necessary.

DATA COLLECTION PRINCIPLES

(CONT.)


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4. In the case of surveys conducted in terms of

this Act, the Confederation gives notice of the

purpose and the legal basis for processing the

data, and the categories of participants in the

data records and the data recipients.

5. The organizations, agencies and other public

legal entities in terms of paragraphs 1 and 2 must

make the data available to the Federal Statistical

Office free of charge.

http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/431_01/a4.html

DATA COLLECTION PRINCIPLES

(CONT.)


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Data Mining

- Is the Process of Analyzing data from

different perspectives and summarizing it

into useful information.


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Data Mining(cont.)

Example;

One grocery chain used the data mining

capacity of Oracle Software to analyze local

buying patterns. They discovered when Men

bought diapers on Thursdays and Saturdays, they

also tended to buy beer to have it available for

the upcoming weekend. The grocery chain can

use this information. For example they will

moved the beer display near the diaper display.

So they could make sure that beers and diapers

are sold in a full price on Thursdays and

Saturdays.


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Data Mining(cont.)

Data warehousing

-Is defined as a process of centralized data

management and retrieval.

What can data mining do?

Internal factors

External factors

It can enable them to determine the impact on

sales, customer satisfaction and corporate

profits.


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How does data mining work?

Classes

Clusters

Association

Sequential patterns

http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/jason.

frand/teacher/technologies/palace/dataminin

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Data mining(cont.)

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