Talk Abstract

OMFG privacy is dead, your identity is GONE and I'm reformatting your phone, too!

Really?

We'll discuss the kinds of data you expose online and the net architecture that makes hiding impossible. We'll examine how different systems harvest and analyze data, why sharing data can be GOOD, and what you should know to make informed decisions.


Dramatic entrance!



Who am I?


How does information travel on the network?

DNS : DNS (since 1983)

TCP/IP : Requirements for Internet Hosts

(history: proposed new tag: IMG)


HTTP, serving web pages since 1990

HTTP standard

HTTP response codes


Logs

Doesn't this violate privacy? What would google do?


Cookies (since 1994)

the standards specify that browsers should protect user privacy and not allow third-party cookies by default

standards


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What Rapleaf Knows About You

rapleaf.com

facebook.com


Exploitation

When did it become bad to have this information available?

(Who controls access to this data?)


Policy

What should a coherent policy around privacy protection look like?


Discuss.


Superpowers