Week+Five+Guest+Lecture

__**GUEST LECTURE: Michelle Levesque**__ (some notes taken from the guest lecture)
 * (Tuesday February 7th 2006)**

Slave Pass - As soon as the slave pass came out, people were starting to write

[|Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882] - Chinese citizens in America were fingerprinted and photographed when they moved around the country so the Government could keep track of them.

- Technology has made us able to keep to information - We no longer know when someone accesses our information, who it is and what information they know about us - Censorship information has the potential to be harmful. When surveillance occurs, censorship is put into motion.

Keystroke logging: An extra wire that is added from the keyboard to computer - (they see the unencrypted version because it enters the wire before it goes into your computer) -FBI uses

-Trojan horse/ Spyware

-Internet Service Providers -Each internet service provider is suppose to keep logs of the activities of what each person has used -Yet… there’s also a law that says that they are not allowed to keep logs of everyone that passes through their site… laws contradict each other, and these have to be worked out

-someone blocked yahoo and no one could access if for days

-Altivore/Carnivore: a software that all your conversations online know are going to be tracked -it can say a certain e-mail address and anything that happened with their account -it is possible that your sending information in the body of an e-mail and that e-mail is in it and they are able to track it -a warrant has to be given in order to install the software

-the gorilla example when throwing a ball -what its trying to demonstrate- your getting rid of people privacy but at the same time your not really going to gain anything because they do not know what information they are looking for and what its going to look for

How to defend yourself about surveillance -[|Firefox] -HTTPS (the s means that your under a safe controlled system) -Change policy -Be aware -….but don’t be paranoid. You’re not that important

[|Disney Security] -Disney World -> as soon as you walked in… you get fingerprinted… -you get a personal ID card (that is associated with your passport) and then the fingerprint is connected with your passport… Disney is a company not the government, yet they still do it, and they do bag checks, -bag checks were extreme and they are allowed to do them -because they are a company, they have fewer laws -they can do whatever they want with the information they have, they can sell the information to other companies

-Surveillance technology: closed circuit tv… started in prison and now we have camera’s in schools, at stop lights.. -now there has been wrist bands that have been introduced to people in prison- what’s going to happen next? Are school kids and criminals going to have to use them to be monitored? …what’s next?

RFID -has an antenna, which makes it different, stores like Walmart have it so that the alarm goes off if someone steals it, yet… sometimes you don’t realize that its still in a product… -there are some that installed in passports and as much as its nice to not have to take your passport out and show it- it automatically scans is nice, but… identities are easier to get stolen

-these are also installed in debit card so money comes directly out of your account.

-this will lead to other things, and anyone could be watching you at any time

-Google is a large information database where people can stalk and get information of somebody

-30, 000 Chinese internet police- myth that started because it was said that it was “rumored” and became it is “more than…” -gets people scared and that creates self censorship

-[|Entrapment] –police don’t look at something unless they have been pointed to the situation because of: -reports of child abuse -reports from spouses -accidentally turning themselves in

is there just a database with your information in it- then why is in a concern? -just because its ineffective, doesn’t mean there aren’t privacy concerns -technology is moving faster then the laws and that’s why there’s problems

part of the censorware market is to sell to schools (bess) -every site that kids in schools go to, is collected and the company has sold to tobacco companies

-Yahoo has given information to the Chinese government and a man was arrested and put in jail for posting stuff about democracy

-no way to test if someone’s read your information