Privacy/Advertising

CPPA ad in the SF Chronicle on individual privacy rights. Photo by Paul Schwartz.
Slides
Required Reading
Read one of:
- I’ve got nothing to hide and other misunderstandings about privacy by Daniel Solove
- The right to privacy by Brandeis, Louis, and Samuel Warren, Harvard law review 4.5 (1890). ([Full Harvard version](https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=journals&handle=hein.journal
Learning Outcomes
Understand
- Boundary management
- Contextual privacy
Apply
- Block third party content activity
- What does “secure advertising” mean to you? s/hlr4&id=206&men_tab=srchresults))
- The next time you run into an uncomfortable social situation that involves privacy, try and think back on this lecture to tease out what about the situation made you uncomfortable.
News
- Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit by Jonathan Stempel, Reuters
- Apple disclosed unintentional voice activation recordings with third parties, including advertisers.
Additional Resources
Referenced in lecture
- Roberto Hoyle, Srijita Das, Apu Kapadia, Adam J. Lee, Kami Vaniea (2017). Was my message read? Privacy and signaling on Facebook messenger. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
- Katz vs US
Privacy
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Daniel J. Solove. “The Limitations of Privacy Rights”. 98 Notre Dame Law Review 975 (2023), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-30, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2022-30
- Short version: “Why Individual Rights Can’t Protect Privacy” by Daniel Solove
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Lederer, Scott, et al. “Five pitfalls in the design for privacy.” Security and Usability_ (2005): 421-445.
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The cost of reading privacy policies by McDonald, Aleecia M., and Lorrie Faith Cranor.
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Kelley, Patrick Gage, et al. “Standardizing privacy notices: an online study of the nutrition label approach.”
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Keküllüoğlu, Dilara, Kami Vaniea, and Walid Magdy. “Understanding Privacy Switching Behaviour on Twitter.” Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2022.
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Keküllüoğlu, Dilara, Walid Magdy, and Kami Vaniea. “From an authentication question to a public social event: Characterizing birthday sharing on Twitter.” Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Vol. 16. 2022.
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Ullah, Imdad, Roksana Boreli, and Salil S. Kanhere. “Privacy in targeted advertising on mobile devices: a survey.” International journal of information security 22.3 (2023): 647-678.
Privacy for Developers
Books
- Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (Alt version) by Helen Nissenbaum