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MIT Communications Futures Program
Notes from Privacy Discussion
CFP Meeting, Santa Clara, Oct. 24,
2011
Notes taken by Karen Sollins
MIT CFP
Data
• Asymmetry: same info, different
problems
– Over the top
– Change of perspective to ownership
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Need trusted partner to enable
Credit rating model?
Micropayments
Need model of what is lost or violated
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Trust management
• Control to share and unshare –
retraction
• How to establish
• How to evaluate
– Boolean
– More granularity
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Requirements
• Micropayments
• Conflight of interest in order to
have motivation
• May lead to new models of
revenue in, for example, CDNs,
etc.
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Personal models
• Regulatory and legal
• Put the individual in control
– Trusted services
– 3rd party to support the user
• Huge problems
– Correction of information
– Deletion of information
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Proliferation of trust
attributes
• How do you trust “devices” to do
what they say they do?
• How do you know they are doing
what they say they are doing
• Trust attributes and encryption
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Possible CFP related
activities or topics
• Mobile payments
– Who are trusted partners?
– Multiple trusted parties
– Federation
• Location information
– Primitives (e.g. ability to make fuzzy or obfuscate
to varying degrees)
– What needs to be protected for privacy to exist?
– Aliases/avatars
– Layering & E2E questions – what needs to be in
the hardware?
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More possible CFP topics
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Federation
Huge data
Mining
Trusted values
Profiling sites for risk/trust
Social science – real vs.
cyberworld models, integration
across them?
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