Privacy Concerns: The Clash between Technological Capabilities and Societal Expectations
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Society has certain basic expectations: People and institutions, including governmental organizations, must behave in accordance with the law and in conformity with a society's ethics. Moreover, a society's laws are generally expected to reflect its ethics. On the other hand, technology increasingly provides capabilities that are unexpected and generally not well known. These technological capabilities may clash with a society's laws and ethics. In particular, modern societies have certain expectations of privacy; these expectations may be contradicted by the capabilities new technology provides.
In this talk, we examine a wide-ranging spectrum of computer-based technologies that may well be at variance with society's general privacy expectations. We look at statistical databases where queries should not be permit access to individual entries; at various technologies that permit the continual or intermittent monitoring of an individual's location; at monitoring communications, including problems created by the use of encryption; the use of watermarking to trace web content; and the sequencing of an individual's complete genome. In some cases, the technology intrudes on an individual's privacy, in some cases, its use may be viewed as neutral, and in some cases technology may be thought to go too far in protecting privacy.
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- Date: 21 Feb 2019
- Time: 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
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- 5430 Westheimer Ct
- Houston, Texas
- United States 77056
- Building: HESS Club
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- Co-sponsored by Ernest Njouondo
- Starts 08 January 2019 01:02 PM
- Ends 20 February 2019 12:02 PM
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Ernst L. Leiss
Biography:
Ernst Leiss earned graduated degrees in engineering (Dipl.-Ing., TU Vienna, 1975), computer science (M. Math., U. Waterloo, 1974), and mathematics (Dr. techn., TU Vienna, 1976). He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo (1976/7) and taught at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago in 1978. He then moved to the US where in fall 1979 he joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston, where he still is. His research interests include formal language theory, high-performance computing, and security. Over the years, Leiss has lectured in 33 different countries. He has supervised 17 Ph. D. dissertations and over 100 M. S. theses. He is author of six books and over 180 refereed conference and journal publications.
Leiss has participated in the accreditation of computer science programs. He has been an ACM Distinguished Lecturer from 1991 until 2015. He has served as the chair of the Houston chapter of the IEEE Computer Society since 1981. He has been involved with Latin American computer science institutions since 1992. He has held administrative positions at his university and chaired various high-level committees; in particular, as President of the Faculty Senate in 1994, he initiated a major restructuring of the university.