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Guest course:
Snowden and the Internet
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A tension exists in the relationship between individuals and
governments. Since the Snowden revelations it is public that the
(National Security Agency (NSA), sometimes even in collaboration
with friendly foreign security agencies, engages in immense
surveillance practices, by which electronic communication,
computers, systems, and phones are compromised at an immense scale.
The questions arises: how do they do that and is it still possible
to circumvent surveillance, and if so, how?
Modern technological developments in ICT and internet gave the
government instruments that significantly disturbed the afore
mentioned balance between government and individual. The same holds
for the information position advantage that large companies
like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, or for example shopping chains with
customer loyalty cards, have by continuously acquiring
information about their members/customers. Maybe you have heard the
news about a large retailer in the USA that knew about the
pregnancy of an internet user even before she herself (or her
parents) knew, just by automatically analyzing the gathered
information about shopping habits.
The Snowden documents still reveal methods and practices from the
security agencies, sometimes on a daily basis. This has
spurred developments of secure privacy enhancing technology for
communication (TOR, BITCOIN) that inhibit governments to perform
surveillance or interfere "by design." In essence, this is a
software technology arms race.
New technological developments keep shaping the world this race
takes place in. We now live in a cloud world. New paradigms as
"software defined networking" and "openflow" are applied. This
course will give an overview of those technologies, the
revelations of Snowden and the question whether new technology is
part of the solution, or actually making the problem worse.
Almost all interaction between citizens and
government/industry/society is now electronic, while at the same time
the citizens
lose faith in this electronic medium.
Location/Date/Time:
UvA Oudemanhuispoort, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6 (Oudezijds Achterburgwal), 1012 GC Amsterdam, OMHP D1.09, 2018-09-19 18h00-20h00
2018:
2017:
2016:
Pointer to course where this is a guest lecture
'Privacy: Theoretical Perspectives, Future Challenges'
Course: 136211206Y
Coordinator: Daniël de Zeeuw
Student Assistant: Michael Collyer
Minor Privacy Studies 2017-2018
Introductory Courses 1 & 2
Contact: E-mail: minorprivacystudies@uva.nl
