Current Issues

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Current Issues

• Week 12 - November 28, 30

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Announcements

• Need to schedule project talks
• We have 10 project talks, 10 minutes each 5
  minutes each for questions
• Dec 5, 7 (120 minutes 5 talks each day if we
  start on time)
• Dec 13 (3 hours 10 talks)
• Options
• All talks Dec 5 and 7 (start promptly at 9 am)
• We could even do 1 or 2 talks this week if anyone
  wants to get their talk over with
• All talks Dec 13
• 4 talks Dec 5 and 6 talks Dec 13
• 4 talks Dec 7 and 6 talks Dec 13

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Announcements

• Decide on talk schedule and sign up for slots
• If you have questions about the comments on your
  paper rough draft or if other questions come up
  as you work on your final paper, please ask!

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Announcements

• Get your foam core boards and construction paper
  for posters from Jennifer Lucas in Smith 231A,
  [phone], jmlucas_at_cs.cmu.edu
• Or bring your poster to poster fair and attach it
  to foam core there

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Finishing up RFID
6
Batya Friedmans talk
7
Pop quiz

• http//www.cdt.org/privacy/quiz/

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Local privacy news

• Upskirting and downblousing not illegal in PA and
  many other states.
• Old PA privacy law makes it illegal to photograph
  someone in a location where a reasonable person
  would believe that he could disrobe in privacy
  without being concerned that his undressing was
  being viewed, photographed or filmed by another.
• New law (signed by governor last week) makes it
  illegal to photograph someones intimate parts
  without their knowledge for the purpose of
  arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of any
  person.

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Transparent society

• The story of Dog Poop Girl
• http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic
  le/2005/07/06/AR2005070601953.html?subAR
• http//populargusts.blogspot.com/2005/07/dog-poop-
  girl-redux.html
• Questions
• Was it appropriate for this incident to be
  photographed and blogged?
• Was it appropriate for people who read the blog
  to identify her and post her identity
• Was it appropriate for people to send harassing
  messages to her and her family
• Should there be limits on what personal
  information can be posted on the Internet and
  archived forever?