Anti-Privacy Anti-Patterns

Presented at BSidesSF 2021 Virtual, March 7, 2021, 2:30 p.m. (30 minutes)

Streaming at <https://youtu.be/Zhu00aOcF3w> Join us at[ r/BSidesSF](https://reddit.com/r/BSidesSF) on Reddit for live AMA style Q&A (2019) In this talk, we will examine key research findings and technological innovations in the past 20 years that have led to the accepted practice of collecting all of the data. We show a difference between tangible (e.g. PII) and non-tangible data and show how seemingly harmless data can still be used to derive behavior (with examples!). We also examine how privacy perspective can change depending on your role or background and propose a perspective shift if we are to try to maintain digital privacy today.

Presenters:

  • Sarah Harvey
    Sarah leads the Privacy Engineering team within the Security org at Square. Her background includes 10 years of security/privacy experience wearing a variety of hats, including but not limited to: privacy research, security design/review, systems and infrastructure engineering, and compliance. Outside of work, she spends her time managing volunteers for BSidesSF and playing classical/video game music on the accordion. She can be followed for occasional security/privacy nonsense on twitter: @worldwise001.

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