- Presentations:
- Jeremy Todd Cooper
- Melanie Black
- Allyson Silver
- Wireless, from last time
General discussion: What's up with records in databases?
- Garfinkle envisions a "database nation," in which everyone will
have records about them in multiple databases, but with little or no
ability to do anything about the data entries (or even to know they
exist)
- Who owns records about you?
- What privacy expectations can you have about such records?
- What level of data integrity and accuracy should be required?
Does this changes for different types of data?
- Who should oversee proper use of data about you?
- Where do privacy and security policies fit in? Federal
laws? State laws? Can we trust industry groups, such as
The DMA and MIB, to look out for our interests?
- How would your answers to the above change if you were
an HMO executive? A database reseller? A spammer? A senator?
Some things To Do...
- Take a look at your credit
report (yes, it costs money [unless you were recently turned down
for credit]). Any anomalies?
- What other records about you exist in the public information space
(e.g., via Web searching and public records)?
- What other records about you exist in "private" locations such as
insurance companies, rental agencies, credit agencies, etc.? How private
are these, really (that is, under what circumstances will such records
be made available, and to whom)?
- Can you find any erroneous data about you? Can you do anything
about the errors?
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