Definitions
Privacy is a desired property generally sought for protection of personal information.
The right to be let alone [Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis "The Right to Privacy", 1890]
Understanding what happens to your data and having the ability to control it [Erin Egan]
Personal information: any directly or indirectly available information (plausibly in conjuction with voluntarily disclosed information or universally observable information) that leads to identification of an entity.
unlinkability -
Observer and powerful/ubiquitous observer -
Anonymity -
Pseudo-anonymity -
Types of Anonymity: There are three types of anonymous communication properties: sender anonymity, receiver anonymity, and unlinkability of sender and receiver.
Degrees of anonymity: absolute privacy > beyond suspicion > probable innocence > possible innocence > exposed > provably exposed.
General reading
What is privacy and why is it an important value? (read section 2.1.1)
Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization
Alternatives Exist for Enhancing Protection of Personally Identifiable Information
Finding the value in open data - Open Data Institute, business plan 2012-2017
Papers
P5 - A Protocol for Scalable Anonymous Communication [project page]
A Market for Unbiased Private Data - Paying Individuals According to their Privacy Attitudes
Freehaven's Selected Papers in Anonymity
Standards/recommendations
Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: Recommendations for Businesses and Policymakers. (US FTC recommendation). FTC page on Privacy and Security
Products, tools for privacy
PET: Privacy Enhancing Techniques -- unobservability, unlinkability, anonymity. Exposure-reducing technologies/transformations, disclosure-reducing technologies. Privacy protection by technological/societal means. Indirection/delegation has potential to introduce privacy.
Privacy policy generation and compliance control.
Indirection/third-party proxy: Anonymizer
Tarzan (Freedman and Moriss 2002)
K-anonymous message transmission (Ahn, Bortz, and Hopper 2003)
Onion routing (TOR)
See bookmarks section
Privacy-preserving audience measurement in IPTV
TV advertisement is a $69.5 billion market [Forrester Research]
Audience measurement systems: Peoplemeter, Portable People Meter
Out-of-home audience measurement