Professor Richard Warner will speak this week at the ForenSecure’13 Cyber Security & Forensics Conference, hosted by IIT’s School of Applied Technology in Wheaton.
Professor Warner will present “Data, Privacy, Security, and the Courts: Where Are We? And, How Do We Get Out of Here?” at 8:00am on Thursday, April 18. The session abstract is below:
Security experts, privacy advocates, courts, and businesses are not seeing eye to eye. Privacy advocates call for severe restrictions on data collection, use, and retention and urge courts to see the invasion of privacy as a compensable harm. Courts refuse to treat the mere invasion of privacy as a compensable harm unless there is an associated “present injury” (a quantifiable actual economic loss at a minimum), have not curtailed massive data collection, and have been reluctant to hold businesses liable for data breaches. Security experts emphasize importance of analyzing massive, long-term datasets to detect the anomalies that signal unauthorized access. Businesses increasingly rely on the analysis of massive amounts of data for business planning and marketing. The consequence is ever-diminishing privacy. We need a better tradeoff between privacy, security, and business than we have. I identify some roads we should not take, and suggest one that we should.
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