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ABSTRACT:
"...your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil"
-Satan, Genesis III:5
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked
-Genesis III:7
The increasing interconnection of data sources has led to growing fears that the "end of privacy" (at least as we know it today) is near. This may be the most undesirable long-term outcome of the continuing information revolution. Since data today are largely stored data, and further, are often collected in a user-controllable manner (e.g., by data entry from a keyboard), various privacy techniques and technologies can be applied. However, in the very near future, ubiquitous low-cost sensors will be introduced into our information networks, and eventually operated collectively, with interesting and perhaps unsettling consequences.
This talk will attempt to expose a subset of the issues and to stimulate thinking on the technologies and their implications. I will close with some speculation on how we, as engineers, might keep society's options open.
Biography:
Jonathan M. Smith, after receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science from
Columbia University in 1989, joined the University of Pennsylvania in
1989, where he is now a Professor in Computer and Information Science,
with a secondary appointment in Electrical and Systems Engineering. He
has served as the Chief R and D Consultant to iPrivacy.com, spoken on
privacy to committees of the U.S. NRC and FCC, and served on the
U.S. FTC's "Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security",
concerned with consumer privacy.
