Internet Privacy: What’s Yours and What Never Was

14 April 2011

Ms. Foster and Ms. McCabe

Street Law

Let’s Review…

• What is a copyright?

– Protects original expressions, not ideas

– Life of the author + 70 years

– Gives the holder a set of certain rights

• What is the Google Library Project?

–What’s the problem with it?

What does privacy mean to you?

THE INTERNET YOUR PRIVACY

A HELPFUL VENN DIAGRAM

• On Facebook?• In your email? • What about your

chats?

What do you put on the internet?

• How many of you use Facebook?

– Twitter? Blogger? Other social network

we’re not cool enough to know about?

– Gmail?

– Google?

Let’s learn some terms.

• Cookies

–When you visit a website, certain

information is exchanged between your

computer and that website. It is stored

on your computer, and on the server of

the website, in small ‘packets’ of

information called cookies.

Terms, continued• Metadata

– Data about data…

One last term..

• IP Address

– Internet Protocol Address

– Numerical label assigned to each device

participating in a network

– “A name indicates what we seek. An address

indicates where it is. A route indicates how to

get there.”

-DARPA

What’s private on Facebook?

• Well… That depends on

what you see as ‘private’.

• Facebook has the right to

use, store, and retain for

‘an extended period’ of

time...

– Your status updates

– Your pictures

– Your videos

– Your links

– Your events or groups

– Your comments on other

people’s content

– Your wall posts (your own

and those you make)

– Your notes

– Your chats

– Your messages

What does this mean for you?

• Facebook's Privacy Policy

• Be careful. You never know what sort

of job you might want in the future,

or what the laws will look like 5, 10,

20 years from now.

What about Google?

• First, let’s talk a little about what

Google owns. (A WHOLE LOT!!!)

– YouTube, AOL, Picasa, Android,

DoubleClick, and 89 other companies

(internet marketing, service providers,

search engines and social networks)

Google, continued

• Google's Privacy Policy

• What does Google know about you?

– Well, it turns out quite a lot.

– EVERY piece of information they collect is opt-out.

– Information you provide, cookies, log information,

user communications, etc., etc., etc.

Let’s see where you guys stand on privacy. Literally.

• Instructions:

– Ms. Foster and Ms. McCabe will read a

series of statements.

– If you agree, stand near Ms. Mac’s desk.

– If you disagree, stand near the door.

– If you fall somewhere in the middle, stand

somewhere in the middle.

Statement One

• If I meet someone new that I might

be interested in, I Google them or

search for them on Facebook.

• OR, I’ve Googled myself.

Statement Two

• I am comfortable with everyone in

this class knowing my last ten

searches on Google.

–My last fifteen?

–What about everything I’ve searched in

the last year?

Statement Three

• I am totally comfortable with other

people tagging and posting photos

and comments of me on Facebook.

Statement Four

• I am comfortable with data mining

about me so I can get targeted

advertisements on my email and on

the sidebars of websites like

Facebook.

Statement Five

• I agree with everything I’ve posted

on the internet in the last three

years, and I’m comfortable with

colleges and employers seeing

everything I’ve posted.

This is bound to stir up some controversy, right?

The Winklevoss TwinsJohn Kerry (Mass.- D) John McCain (Ariz.-

R.)

The moral of the story

• Educate yourself.

• Think before you type something into

the Internet. Once it’s out there, you

can NEVER take it back.

Tomorrow…

1. It’s Friday!

2. We start Mock Trial prep!