In this article, the author focuses on four key issues that are expected to impact the future of privacy and security. These have been labeled — the Four Horsemen, for obvious reasons. In our assessment, these topics or “horsemen” have the potential to change the fundamental tenets of our society. They impact our banking system, medical breakthroughs, use of the internet and web-enabled devices and services. Together, these topics touch the entire range of technical, regulatory, social, legal, and commercial issues. The Four Horsemen are Net Neutrality (and U.S. Internet Privacy Laws), Internet of Things (IoT), Human Genome (Medical), and Cryptocurrency.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a loosely defined term describing internet-connected sensors that among other capabilities enable companies to monitor individuals. New privacy-related challenges can arise when sensors communicate with each other. These challenges call for changes to corporate privacy policies to incorporate potential IoT issues and guidance. This research investigates existing privacy policies and IoT-related research to provide IoT privacy policy recommendations. Privacy policy questions include: Who or what is notified of monitoring? When and where should there be expectations of privacy? Why and how is user data collected and how should monitoring problems be communicated? The analysis concludes with IoT-related privacy policy recommendations.
Health-related data include not only the patient’s personal information, but also specific information about the patient health problems, supplementary diagnostic examination results, and much more. All this information is extremely sensitive and should only be accessed by the proper entities and actors, for special specific purposes. Described herein is an approach to address security and privacy of health-related data based on rights management technologies, with an architecture to minimize security risks and privacy conerns. This approach consists of the reutilisation of an open-source and open-specifications rights management system, and designing and adapting the necessary components to address the specific security and privacy requirements that must be faced when managing health and patient data.
Security and Privacy in Social Networks is an edited collection of an introduction and 10 scholarly articles, which are partially based on the research work presented at the Workshop on Security and Privacy in Social Networks, in connection with the 2012 IEEE Social Computing Conference. Given the growing prominence of online social networks (OSN) and their corresponding security and privacy problems, this book aims to propose solutions as well as develop a common language for use between researchers and practitioners. The authors organized the book into 11 chapters, dedicating the first chapter to introduction and the remaining 10 to research articles. In the upcoming paragraphs, I will provide a review of the key ideas discussed in each chapter and then conclude my review.
This study examines the privacy practices of organizations. We argue that successful deployment of privacy practices based on ethical actions will strengthen privacy protection measures to better protect clients’ PII. We propose a set of ethical actions based on six normative theories following multiple case study approach to study three prominent data breaches. Our analysis indicates that ethical actions based on normative theories can be effective in developing better privacy practices for organizations. The theory that has the strongest effect on privacy practices is the deontological approach, while the liberal-intuitive has the weakest effect on privacy practices.
