from where comes privacy?

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From Where Comes Privacy?

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Dr. Ian Oliver

Bell Labs, Finland

22 April 2016

A Lecture Given at the Iowa Informatics Symposium 2016

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So what is this privacy thing anyway?

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Interlude

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The joys of being an engineer in a lawyer dominated world...

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• vs Security...

• [[privacy]]

• Information wants to be free!• Freedom to do/be...?• Freedom from...?• Price, value

•Ownership

• You are the product

• ”Anti-privacy”

• Advertising, surveillance, hacking, oversharing

• Personal responsibility vs Technilogical complexity

• PII, personal data, pseudo-anonymous, anonymisation

•variability, entropy, Navier-Stokes

• f(p1...pn) -> R

•The Privacy Singularity•Unification of disciplines•Mathematical Foundations of Privacy•The Fundamental Theorem of Privacy

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So what’s the problem?

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Privacy is considered a primarily legal discipline

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Privacy as...

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• A legal construct •“The Right to Privacy” (Warren and Brandeis, 1890)• EU Data Protection Laws• Human Rights•...

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Privacy as...

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• A legal construct• A philisophical construct

• morals, ethics etc• political science? Kant etc.

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Privacy as...

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• A legal construct• A philisophical construct• An economic construct

• brand/shareholder value• customer relatonships• business• innovation

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Privacy as...

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• A legal construct• A philisophical construct• An economic construct• A guiding principle

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Privacy as...

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• A legal construct• A philisophical construct• An economic construct• A guiding principle• A sociological construct

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Privacy as...

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• A legal construct• A philisophical construct• An economic construct• A guiding principle• A sociological construct• A game theoretic construct

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Privacy as...

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• A legal construct• A philisophical construct• An economic construct• A guiding principle• A sociological construct• A game theoretic construct• A systems engineering construct

char collectDataFlag = 'Y'; // Future proofed boolean// Y for yes, N for no

void collectDataFunction(){//collect IMEI, IMSI, MSISDN, TimeStamp and location//and send to the hardcoded IP address...

}

void checkDataCollection(){switch(collectDataFlag){

case 'N' :// don't do anything

case 'Y' :// ok to collect everythingcollectDataFunction();

}}

compliance

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Privacy as...

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• A legal construct• A philisophical construct• An economic construct• A guiding principle• A sociological construct• A game theoretic construct• A systems engineering construct (pt.2)

• Ontological structures• Metrics / Risk Analysis• Modelling• Privacy Engineering• Compliance• Culture & Safety Critical

Systems• (Aviation, Medicine)

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Privacy as...

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• A legal construct• A philisophical construct• An economic construct• A guiding principle• A sociological construct• A game theoretic construct• A systems engineering construct• A control theoretical construct

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Privacy as...

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• A legal construct• A philisophical construct• An economic construct• A guiding principle• A sociological construct• A game theoretic construct• A systems engineering construct• A control theoretical construct• A mathematical construct

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• metrics• topology• ontology• anonymisation & variability• turbulence, chaos theory• link back to economics & game theory• deanonymisation• information entropy

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