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The CAPrice Initiative and the CAP-A project: A bottom-up solution to digital privacy

Ioannis Chrysakis (FORTH-ICS, Information Systems Laboratory) – chrysakis.eu

1st Graduate Students Conference, Computer Science Department, Univ. Crete, 25/10/19

THE BIG DATA REVOLUTION

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Source: Statista, Internet Live Stats, Expanded Ramblings, Association of City Transportation Officials, Wired

THE BIG DATA REVOLUTION

• The Data Economy
• Processing of Data
• Machine learning, deep learning, data science
• Hidden Correlations
• Predict epidemics, personalized medicine etc.
• Personality identification1, vote manipulation2

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• 1. ApplyMagicSauge: can tell your personality from facebook/twitter posts.
• 2. Allegations that Cambridge Analytica and other big data companies used targeted micro-advertising and personalized

emotional triggers to help in the success of the Brexit and Trump campaigns.

DATA SURVEILANCE

• Tribute to privacy leaks: The 21 scariest data breaches of 2018 (including

Facebook, Google+, Cambridge Analytica, Aadhar)

• Iphone apps privacy leak: Dozens of Apps ‘constantly’ sending location data!
• Red Shell analytics software causes privacy uproar. Several game developers

vow to drop it.

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Source://www.caprice-community.net/category/actual-cases/ Source: https://computerworld.com/article/3346011/why-do-new-smartphones-at-mwc19-need-so-many-cameras.html

TERMS OF SERVICE (TOS)

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TERMS OF SERVICE (TOS)

• T
• S documents
• Lengthy1
• Hard to read/understand
• Change often
• Real versus digital world
• Different behaviour with regards to privacy2,3

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 1. NCC : Reading ToS for an average Norwegian would take 32 hours (250.000 words)  2. Purple: 22.000 users agreed to 1.000 hours of community service (including cleaning animal waste

and relieving sewer blockages) in exchange for free wifi

 3. Video: If your shop assistant was an app (hidden camera) @ youtube

OUR GOAL

• How do we enable users to:
• understand and be aware of what they gain and what they lose when they use

digital services?

• decide collectively and make explicit their privacy preferences.
• How can we convince developers that respecting users’

privacy is profit-maximizing?

• Create a trusted-market where we can bring together users,

hackers and developers.

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OUR PLAN

• 1.Awareness: By this way people could understand the problem and start

considering solutions.

• 2. Action: Participating in the collaborative process of annotating ToS

documents, stating privacy concerns, creating and configuring collective privacy norms etc.

• 3. Crowdsourced activities/facilities: Tools and services that allow users

to finally create more digital more privacy-friendly products and services.

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THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY

• Our Goal
• Generate a community of privacy-aware citizens
• Community will act as the basic communication vehicle to harness the

power of the crowd, through awareness and participation

• Channels: Website, Social Media [Community Members]
• Events: Gamification, Presentations,

Virtual Events,

• Activities: Crowdsourcing activities, Online Polls

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THE CAP-A PROJECT

• Current situation in the Digital World:
• Mobile Apps request access to a wealth of personal data
• Terms of Service (ToS) documents are hard to read or understand (our

consent is often uninformed)

• This practice hurts the market in the long run, especially small companies

since users lose their trust on digital products

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We Propose a Bottom-up Solution to Digital Privacy

THE CAP-A PROJECT

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Q & A

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Ioannis Chrysakis (R & D Engineer - Information Systems

Laboratory, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH)

• www.chrysakis.eu, @ichrysakis (twitter, linkedin)
• CAP-A Project – https://www.cap-a.eu
• CAPrice Community – https://www.caprice-community.net

(#CapriceCommunity – Get involved/follow us on social media)

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