christian vargas. also known as data privacy or data protection is the relationship between...
TRANSCRIPT
What is Information Privacy?• Also known as Data Privacy or Data Protection
• Is the relationship between collection and spreading or exposing data and information about yourself
• It also involve the concealing of information that you consider private and not should be exposed to everyone.
What is Personal Information?
• Personal information is information about an identifiable individual that is recorded
or filed in any form whether it be on paper or electronically.
Examples of Personal Information:• Home Address• Home Telephone
number• Age, Date of birth,
Gender• Blood Type• Ethnicity, nation of
origin, color of skin• Religious beliefs• Health care/Medical
history• Opinions about a person
from others
• Marital status• Identifying number SIN,
PRI• Credit card number• Criminal records,
fingerprints• Resume ( Curriculum
vitae)• Educational history• Financial history• Employment
information• Exact salary
What isn’t consider Personal Information• Address at work • Classification of job
position • Work-related
correspondence • Details of employment
contract • Fact that a person is or
was employed by the government
• Name on government contract
• Opinion about job • Responsibilities of job • Salary range • Telephone number at
work (including business cell phone number)
• Fax number at work • Job title • Security level of
position
Why is this important?• This is important because its good to know the
difference between what is consider personal information and what isn't.
• Because different persons have different views on what personal information is
• It is important to know about ways these information is used against you for other purposes
How does this relate to Computer Science?• Information is also entered online and is stored
online as well
• Social websites always asks for personal information and it willing given( Facebook, twitter, Instagram)
• This information is entered online and saved and used by other third party companies
• Because this information is online it is readily available anytime and anywhere
How is this information used?• As we know:• Information is used to give a general description about us
on social networks to tell others about ourselves
• It is used for surveys and when you sign up to receive newsletters or any online site along this line
• This information is used to meet people and find friends
How is this information used?• Under our noses• This information is bough by third party sites and is used
for their benefit and to promote their companies
• Its is also used by third party companies to build their online database
• This information is also used to promote a certain type of product to us or similar to what we link
• Companies used this information to blasts us with advertisements about products we might like
How much users know?• People who enter this information online is not
aware of how this information is used
• The are under the impression that the information is used online for the site it is entered
• When told that the information is bought and used by other sites, they were unaware
• Users are unaware of what other companies are doing with their information and how they are using it
LEGISLATION AND POLICIES • The major acts and policies that relate to privacy
and personal information are:
• The Privacy Act • The Access to Information Act • Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
PRIVACY ACT • The Privacy Act protects the privacy of individuals
by controlling personal information collected, used, retained or disposed of by federal government institutions.
• The Act also provides Canadian citizens and other individuals present in Canada with the right to access personal information about themselves held by a government institution.
PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS ACT
• The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act establishes rules to govern the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by all federally regulated private sector organizations in the course of commercial activity.
• The Act also provides for the use of electronic alternatives to record or communicate information or transactions, describes the characteristics of secure electronic signatures and the conditions under which electronic signatures can be used to authenticate business transactions and to provide evidence in legal proceedings.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT • The Access to Information Act is a Canadian act
that provides the right of access to information under the control of a government institution. It declares that government information should be available to the public.
• This is in keeping with the principles that government information should be available to the public and that exceptions to this should be limited and specific.
Pros and Cons of these Uses• Cons• These information is used to narrow down the different
advertisement the bombard us with • The information we enter online is to build a database that we
might not want to be in• Information about ourselves is saved and kept online for long
times such as criminal records and other incriminating information.
• Pros• The information we enter can help our friends get in contact
with us whether it be for school purposes or business purposes• The information is used to give us a search that is more
specific to what we might want• This information is used for other people to find us
In Conclusion• Personal information is information about an
identifiable individual that is recorded in any form. • There are information that can be consider
personal and other information that may not be depending on what u see as personal information
• This information is bought and used for other purposes than what we most likely might know or be aware of
• The uses of these information can both benefit us or can be sued against us