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Describe, step by step, how the IT system works. An example of a face recognition and detection technology is the iPhone app that can snap a photo of a person and within seconds display their name, date of birth and social security number. 1. A good quality, well-lit photograph of the person is taken. 2. The image is sent to a server where a database of images is located. 3. The images in the database are downloaded from publicly available sources (any database containing faces and names), such as facebook, twitter or LinkedIn profiles. 4. According to the information available in that profile, such as date and location of higher education stydy, other data can be inferred (date and state of birth). 5. This data is inserted into an algorithm developed to predict the social security number. All of this still within the database. 6. The biometric features of the iPhone photograph is compared to those of the image in the database 7. If they match, the information about that person is returned from the server to the iPhone: name, date of birth, state, social security nr. What are the flaws within this system? Explain the relationship between the IT system (facial recognition iPhone app) and the social/ethical (privacy and anonymity) "The technology to analyse faces in improving so quickly that unpredictable (...) inferrences from that information have become possible." - Alessandro Acquisti, professor of IT and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College The app is a proof-of-concept of how our privacy can be easily breached on a widespread basis (as one walks into a store or protests in a convention)

This article raises the issue of privacy and anonymity. This article shows how there is a possibility that in the near future, as long as the technology continues to develop at this rate, all of our personal data will be stored on a database along with an image of our faces. The fact that a person can be recognized at any moment anywhere means that people will start to be monitored and everything they do will be recorded. This completely strips people from their privacy, much like the Big Brother situation that is described in George Orwell's "1984". This technology can, however, bring certain advantages as through the constant monitoring of people, people involved in criminal acts will be identified with much more ease and therefore crime levels are sure to decrease. However, this can also raise an issue of reliability, as although it is a very small percentage of it happening, there can be the case where the camera misidentifies someone, and in a case of crime, that could lead to an innocent person being conviected for a crime they did not commit. And although at the end of the article "Wear a mask," is said by John Verdi, senior counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center as a joke, if the tecnhology continues to develop, we might find ourselves in the ridiculous situation where the only way to ever remain anonymous is to in fact wear a mask.

One of the main social and ethical issues in this article is surly privacy. Privacy has been a main issue for our society, not only about credit card details, yet also other personal information. As technology is increasing, the less privacy we have as there are more ways in obtaining this information. And in this case, as technology is increasing, hackers are also as there are easier and more ways in order to get the information they want. There are various ways the hacker can get access to these thousands of credit card numbers, here is one step-by-step of one of the ways of how this IT system works: Firstly, the hacker (or hackers) go around lots of banks and put a small video camera pointing to the bank machine keypad. This video camera is well hidden so that people cannot see them. When someone goes to the machine, they put their credit card number and this analogue information converts to digital information and is recorded in the memory in the video camera. After a few hours/days, the hackers remove the video cameras and upload the data in the memory card via a USB cable and save the data on their servers. The hackers then watch the video and record the credit card numbers on a paper/other computer. With this information, they can obtain more personal information such as names, phone numbers, post codes etc with specialized programs. Finally, when they have all the information they have, they post the personal information including the credit card numbers, on the internet. Yet, in order to maintain the hacker anonymous and not being able to be found via the IP address, he uses another proxy server when uploading this information on the internet. There are also other ways to get the credit card information such as: - Intercepting emails containing passwords - Popups infected by viruses - Spyware - Spam - Keyloggers etc. Some possible solutions for this issue is: - When typing your credit card number in the bank machine keypad, hide the keypad coveri

anyone want to try and describe step by step how this system works?

Basically the car works with a Velodyne 64-beam laser mounted on the roof on the car, the laser produces a detailed 3D map of the environment and takes measurements of the area. The car uses the data from the 3D map and the measurements to avoid obstacles and respect traffic laws. Furthermore, the car uses various sensors, two of which are placed on the front and rear bumpers to track obstacles. There is also a camera, that detects traffic lights, GPS, inertial measurement unit, and wheel encoder, that determine the vehicle's location and keep track of its movements. In my opinion, the idea of a self driving car is incredible if it is built correctly, however I believe that the wheel encoder may invade the privacy of some.

Privacy is the main issue being presented as facebook users are exposed to phising. Phising involves 'stealing' a users username and passwords usually through emails or links leading to fake websites which seem to be trustworthy. Phishing attempts give the user a sense of urgency in order to convince them to give their information. (e.g. You need to provide us with your username and password as soon as possible. Not doing so will result in permanent deletion of your account) The relationship between the users and the IT system is that users often use facebook on a day to day basis to perform various activities. This makes facebook a 'profitable' target due to the large number of people that can be tricked at once. The risk is that the stakeholders may be susceptible to is the loss of their username and password, giving the hacker/phisher full acess to ones account which may then lead to other information to be divulged about the user. Facebook is attempting to solve this issue by warning users about suspicious links they may be accessing, although there are already some security options in facebook settings such as the use of HTTPS which provides "encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Secure

I agree with Andre as though the consequences of the hack can be dealt with in a relatively short amount of time, the incident reveals a bigger problem with the security of the government's files and questions just how safe confidential information really is from being accessed by the wrong people. The main social and ethical issue is security, as the security of US official's e-mails may have been breached by fishing. The fact that such an incident has occurred in such a place with such important information and with supposedly very high security measures is worrying, and ways to detect and combat the threat of phishing should be publicized.

Here is a list of all Google's philosophy, http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/tenthings.html

Good story this and nice link to Google's philosophy Jorge. This article is a good one for commenting on the relationship between the stakeholder and the IT system. Anyone want to step up and "Describe the relationship of one primary stakeholder to the IT system"?

This article raises a huge reliability issue as people are being tricked to buying tickets from fake websites, which are advertised by Google. Due to its increasing reputation over the years, the average internet user will use and think of Google as the most reliable website to navigate, and therefore would trust most of the llinks that would appear when they search for something. The secure and reliable reputation Google has is what makes the fact that these illegal websites being sponsored ads such a large issue. It affects many web users and as they are likely to visit these websites, their personal information such as bank account details and personal details are made public. So security could also be seen as an issue as these people are put at risk as they have given their bank account data to fake websites, who could use the data gain access to bank accounts and steal money.

One of the problems here is the authenticity of data being released. ""This is a lot of data, but there are already some names where it's clear the people are not right-wing extremists." Some people identified in the data had merely been contacted by right-wing publications seeking interviews, she added." Some of the people on the list are not Nazis. What could be a solution to this?