Your identity

Do a Web search of sites, images, and videos associated with your name.

Powned?

Type the email address you use to register with most services into Have I been Pwned.

Personal search

• Do a Spokeo search of your (or perhaps your parents’) name or phone number. (Do not confirm any information or pay for any extra services.)

What can you do?

• occasionally check your information
• watch credit reports

HTTP headers

GET /privacy-tool.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.org
Referer: https://reagle.org/joseph/ob-web/.../Privacy_footprint.html
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Win98; U)
Cookie: userID=id456578
Accept: image/gif, image/jpg, */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Language: en-US  
Connection: Keep-Alive
....

Browser fingerprint

Use Cover Your Tracks to see how uniquely identifiable you are.

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What can you do?

VPN is a proxy

1. Can evade censorship (school) and local monitoring (ISP)
2. Can be slow and banned (Facebook, Netflix, Wikipedia)

Check search activity

Check timeline in Google Maps

Check the Google Ads Preferences

Joy Buolamwini on bias

What can you do?

Check what you are sharing

FB & Cambridge Analytica

Are apps listening?

• FB isn’t listening to target ads
• but many apps were listening to your TV
  • and TVs have listened to people
• ads do track what you are interested in, what you are doing, and who and what you are near
• and Prof. Wilson notes apps were taking screenshots (Haridy 2019)

Go around: What surprised you?

For the better?

For worse?

Student assignments

Wrap-up

• Create two high-order questions.

If you could recommend to a friend or relative one thing about protecting their privacy, what would it be?