When people make trust decisions with social networks, they don't always understand the ramifications. Today, you are far more knowable by someone who doesn't know you than ever before in the past.
Security is not a 6 month or 12 month initiative – it’s part of innovation and the ongoing evolution of commerce. As fast as you invent a lock, there is criminal finding a way to pick it.
Bottom line: Protecting customer data is the right thing to do. It will save you money, it will make you money, and it will engender trust with consumers so that they will want to transact with you more.
You should be able to delete information about you that we can control. You should own your data and we should be transparent.
We’ve always said that if you can’t protect it, don’t collect it.
The surveillance society is inevitable and irresistible.
The computer -- especially with sites like Facebook -- is now a virtual front door to your house allowing people access to your personal information. You deserve to look through the peep hole and decide who you are letting in.
In the past we only worried about Big Brother governments assembling detailed dossiers about us. Then came what privacy advocates called Little Brother – corporations that collect data from their customers.
If you are one of the hundreds of millions of smartphone users worldwide, you probably spend more time with your phone than your spouse: with its array of applications and sensors, it may even know more about you.
Now, you have this gray world in which everything overlaps, and everything that's personal is business and vice versa, and now it's a mess.
Patient information is like radioactive material [...] It must be protected. It must be contained. It cannot be taken out of the building, sent out of the building, or looked at inappropriately if the employee is not permitted to access it.
The problem is students and employees and younger folks coming into work think of Facebook and Twitter as something you do. Just as you shouldn't be saying anything about patients on the telephone, you shouldn't be Twittering or Facebooking about work.
Every piece of data on the Internet maps back to who created it and who they know. Where they were when they did it, where they've been and where they plan to go. What they are interested in, attend to, and interact with, and is around them, and when they do these things. The contextualization of the web in the world and the connection of the world to the web, mediated by the connections of people to each other, is forming a new Internet which has vast implications of privacy, identity, and innovation; and how we are going to structure our societies and our economies.
As social media become more embedded in everyday society, the mismatch between the rule-based privacy that software offers and the subtler, intuitive ways that humans understand the concept will increasingly cause cultural collisions and social slips. But people will not abandon social media, nor will privacy disappear. They will simply work harder to carve out a space for privacy as they understand it and to maintain control, whether by using pseudonyms or speaking in code.
I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time. [...] I mean we really have to think about these things as a society.
When a laptop is stolen, 99 percent of the time the [perpetrator] doesn't know he's got SSNs on it.
If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use Artificial Intelligence, we can predict where you are going to go.
Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don't have 14 photos of yourself on the Internet? You've got Facebook photos!
Tiny pieces of disparate data are being mashed together to create a digital profile of you in detail you never thought imaginable. Whether you stay up late at night or have ever complained about a company could affect your employability. Whether you have expensive spending habits may affect if someone will invest in your company or date you.
Dealing with the impact of getting caught surreptitiously violating customer privacy, costly. Avoiding violating your customers' privacy, priceless.
We, Siemens, have the technology to record it (energy consumption) every minute, second, microsecond, more or less live.Src: Privacy concerns challenge smart grid rollout
From that we can infer how many people are in the house, what they do, whether they're upstairs, downstairs, do you have a dog, when do you habitually get up, when did you get up this morning, when do you have a shower: masses of private data.
We think the regulator needs to send a strong signal to say that the data belongs to consumers and consumers alone. We believe that's a blocker to people adopting the technology.
-- Martin Pollock of Siemens Energy
There doesn't yet appear to be such a thing as a privacy engineer; given the relative paucity of models and mechanisms, that's not too surprising. Until we build up the latter, we won't have a sufficient basis for the former. For privacy by design to extend beyond a small circle of advocates and experts and become the state of practice, we'll need both. -- Stuart Shapiro, Principal Information Privacy and Security Engineer at The MITRE CorporationSrc: Privacy By Design: Moving From Art to Practice | June 2010 | Communications of the ACM
