IS GOOGLE WATCHING YOU?

1. How does Google's business model use personal data?

    Ans. Google does use of personal data for their advertisements by sending information to the person from the advertisers.

2. What do you think are the major privacy concerns raised by Google’s business model and applications?

    Ans. I think the major privacy concerns raised by Google are data protection, major privacy blunder, and major hack attacks.

3. Do you think Google has taken adequate measures to protect its user's privacy?

    Ans. Yes, because Google gives their clients protection that they need. As a Google user, for some time I did not feel that I'm not protected of what Google provided me of their services.

VIGNETTE "PRIVACY CONCERNS ABOUND WITH NEW IRS SYSTEMS"

1. What information about you is being held, who is holding it, and what is this information being used for?


    Ans. The information being held about me is my personal information and contact information, the one who holds it is the one whom i gave it for, and that information is being used for storage in future use.


"When you give your personal details to an organisation or individual, they have a duty to keep these details private and safe. This process is known as data protection. We refer to organisations or individuals who control the contents and use of your personal details as 'data controllers'." 


Excerpt from - http://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/A_guide_to_your_rights_-_Plain_English_Version/858.htm


2. What measures are being taken to safeguard this information and what happens if it is inadvertently or deliberately stolen?


    Ans. Some measures that can safeguard this information is to publicize that your information has been stolen or you can directly ask for some support on what to do in these occurrences. 

COMPUTER AND INTERNET CRIME (CASE STUDY)

Vignette - Trading Scandal at Society General


1. Peter Gumble, European editor for Fortune magazine, comments, "Kerviel is a stunning example of a trader breaking the rules, but he's by no means alone. One of the dirty little secrets of trading floors around the world is that every so often, somebody is caught concealing a position and is quickly - and quietly - dismissed... [This] might be shocking for people unfamiliar with the macho, high-risk, high-reward culture of most trading floors, but consider this: the only way banks can tell who will turn into a good trader and who even the most junior traders to take aggressive positions. This leeway is supposed to be matched by careful controls, but clearly they aren't foolproof." What is your reaction to this statement by Mr. Gumble? 

   Ans. My reaction to this statement is that it is true that somebody is caught concealing a position and is quickly - and quietly - dismissed. This means that nowadays some people can easily get the position they want on a company and can also dismiss themselves immediately as they pleased to.

2. What explanation can there be for the failure of SocGen's internal control system to detect Kerviel's transactions while Eurex detected many suspicious transactions?

    Ans. The explanation of that is the SocGen is maybe too confident of what they have and it causes them to lower their guards. As what Pascal Decque, a financial analyst who covers for SocGen for Natixis (a leading player in corporate and investment banking), commented, "SocGen was brilliant in [its] achievement... the world leader in derivatives. Maybe when you are that good, you think you will never fail."

Whistle-Blower Divides IT Security Community

1. Do you think that Mike Lynn acted in a responsible manner? Why or Why not?

    Ans. Yes, because Mike Lynn did it for the better of his jurisdiction.

2. Do you think that CISCO and ISS were right to pull the plug on Lynn's presentation at the black hat conference? Why and why not?

   Ans. For me, it's no, because for some reasons that Mike Lynn only wants to express what he have found out or his discovery.

3. Outline a more reasonable approach toward communicating the flaw in the CIsco routers that would have led to the problem being promptly addressed without stirring up animosity among the parties involved. 

   Ans. The best reasonable approach for me is a direct communication to the other parties in which they can talk or express what they want to say in orderly manner without having vital confrontations.