[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4cast #508: Internet privacy. Whatev.

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OPLIN 4cast #508: Internet privacy. Whatev.
September 21st, 2016

[image: Online privacy] Online privacy is a really large-scale issue.
Yet, often we turn a blind eye, either purposefully or inadvertently. Many
of us will shout that privacy is important to us, yet we post all sorts of
personally-identifiable information
<http://adammclane.com/2016/05/people-really-care-online-privacy/>.  We're
seemingly privacy hypocrites. (It's so much easier *not* to consider our
privacy, right?) Or, if we do think about our online privacy, we may trade
it knowingly away, depending on what the tradeoff is
<http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/01/14/privacy-and-information-sharing/>.
It appears that the issue is large, messy and fast-evolving. Here's just
some of what's been happening recently...if you want to think about it.
- App vs. website: Which best protects your privacy?
<https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160912151632.htm> (Northeastern
University, September 12, 2016) "The answer? 'It depends,' says Choffnes, a
mobile systems expert in the College of Computer and Information Science.
'We expected that apps would leak more identifiers because apps have more
direct access to that information. And overall that's true. But we found
that typically apps leak just one more identifier than a website for the
same service. In fact, we found that in 40 percent of cases websites leak
more types of information than apps.'"
- In a connected world, privacy becomes a group effort
<https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160511210617.htm> (Penn
State, May 11, 2016) "In a study, the researchers found that social media
users act autonomously on some privacy issues, but are interdependent when
information is co-owned by multiple users. As soon as individuals share
information with their online social networks, they no longer have sole
control over the information, but must rely on others for privacy
protection, said Jia."
- No Right To Privacy For Internet Users: Big Brother Gets Federal Court
Approval
<http://www.inquisitr.com/3260992/no-right-to-privacy-for-internet-users/> (Cal
Jeffrey, Inquisitr, July 2, 2016) "Internet users apparently have no legal
right to privacy. Senior U.S. District Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. has
ruled that 'people should have no expectation of privacy
<http://www.eweek.com/security/home-computers-connected-to-the-internet-arent-private-court-rules.html>
on their home PCs because no connected computer ‘is immune from invasion,'
reports *eWeek*."
- The New Privacy Cop Patrolling the Internet
<http://fortune.com/2016/05/10/fcc-internet-privacy/> ( Jon Leibowitz &
Jonathan Nuechterlein, *Fortune*, May 10, 2016) "As our online footprints
grow in size and scope, it is more important than ever for Internet
companies to protect us against hackers and disclose how they use our
personal data. The Federal Trade Commission was long the main privacy cop
enforcing these essential consumer protections. But last year, the FTC’s
sister agency—the Federal Communications Commission—reclassified broadband
ISPs as common carriers outside the FTC’s jurisdiction. Unless the courts
reverse that decision, there are now two privacy cops on the Internet beat."

*Articles from Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - FBI's massive porn sting puts internet privacy in crossfire
   <http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehpl/detail/detail?sid=97f71a97-c2d0-48b4-a8b8-73f2501565dd%40sessionmgr107&vid=0&hid=118&bdata=&preview=false#AN=2W62853655075&db=cmh>.
   (Mike Carter, Seattle Times, 8/27/2016.)
   - Consumer Groups Back FCC Rulemaking On Internet Privacy Protections
   <http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehed/detail/detail?sid=c4869c1e-0eb2-4abc-8c8e-fb82c880ae51%40sessionmgr4010&vid=0&hid=4101&bdata=&preview=false#AN=201605111516PR.NEWS.USPR.DC96494&db=pwh>
   (PR Newswire US, 05/11/2016)
   - Techtopia: what does your phone know about you?
   <http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehpl/detail/detail?sid=2971f89a-f4f3-4e66-b8db-cfa126dc6b53%40sessionmgr102&vid=0&hid=118&bdata=&preview=false#AN=P6S153354497016&db=cmh>
(World
   Today, The (ABC), Sep 08, 2016)

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