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Toll of personal privacy in 2018 @KirilsSolovjovs https://kirils.org Privacy is dead 16 May 2018, Twitter @KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org @KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org @KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

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Toll of personal privacy in 2018

@KirilsSolovjovs https://kirils.org

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

“Privacy is dead”

16 May 2018, Twitter

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

“Meh, that’s just China being China!”

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

  • OK. What about Europe?
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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Visas — biometry

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Passports — biometry

not requiring a fjngerprint storing fjngerprint only in passports storing the hash of fjngerprints in DB storing the whole damn fjngerprint in DB

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Banks know what you buy

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Online profiling

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Online profiling

  • EU fjxed that in May 2011!
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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Online profiling

  • EU fjxed that in May 2011!
  • EU fjxed that in May 2018!
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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Online profiling

  • EU fjxed that in May 2011!
  • EU fjxed that in May 2018!
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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

CCTV

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Alright alright, but ...

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Privacy is for criminals

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Not really. In fact ...

27 May 2018, POLITICO

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Privacy is power

“Privacy [is] power dynamics between the individual, the state and the market.” “As recent scandals have illustrated so vividly, privacy is also about the autonomy, dignity, and self-determination of people [..]” “[Data protection] must seek to mitigate the inherent power imbalances between people — and those that collect, process and profjt

  • ff their data.”

27 May 2018, POLITICO

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Personal privacy choices

Zealously fjghting for my privacy over the past 5+ years

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Operating system

  • Before: Windows 98 => Ubuntu Linux
  • After:

Linux Mint

  • Cost:

Slower software updates

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Browsing habits

  • Before: JavaScript & Adobe Flash allowed
  • After:

No JavaScript except pre-approved sites, no Flash

  • Cost:

Limited choice of e-shopping and online services

Yes, that’s a blank page P.S. https://kirils.org/#2016-12-30

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Browsing habits

  • Before: Accept and honor all cookies
  • After:

Only accept temporary fjrst-party cookies

  • Cost:

ReCAPTCHA hates me

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

E-mailing

  • Before: HTML support
  • After:

No HTML support

  • Cost:

My pen-pals hate me

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

E-mailing

  • Before: Public e-mail service
  • After:

Own domain on own server

  • Cost:

Gmail users never get my fjrst e-mail

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Phone

  • Before: Siemens CX65
  • After:

Nokia 3330

  • Cost:

No (properly) encrypted communications

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Mobile apps

  • Before: ????
  • After:

no GPS permission*, no contacts, no mic/cam* *with specifjc exceptions

  • Cost:

Some apps don’t work at all Stuck in 2010 era

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Social networks & chats

  • Before: IRC, facebook
  • After:

XMPP, wire, twitter

  • Cost:

Social exclusion, limited social circle

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Re-socializing

  • Before: Install ALL THE APPS
  • After:

Fake phone number in Signal, Telegram, etc.

  • Cost:

Account takeover in 3..2..1.. (Unless you set-up a two-step PIN)

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Other people’s apps

  • Before: People giving away my information to companies
  • After:

???? Private caller ID ????

  • Cost:

Having no friends

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Photos

  • Before: Loved taking photos and being in photos
  • After:

Always the photographer

  • Cost:

Bewildered stares

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Legal protection

  • Before: Companies mishandling my data
  • After:

Companies (telling me they’re?) not doing that

  • Cost:

Approx 3000 euro/year in lost productivity Lot’s of “don’t you have anything better to do?”

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Visitors

  • Before: Friends “checking into” my home
  • After:

Only trusted circle invited

  • Cost:

More space taken up by undrunk booze hoarded during trips

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Loyalty cards

  • Before: Real data
  • After:

Fake data, cloned cards

  • Cost:

I can’t legally request anything about “me”

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Public transport

  • Before: Paper-based discount tickets
  • After:

Paper-based one-trip tickets

  • Cost:

666% (no joke) increase in cost

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Banking

  • Before: Being paid via wire transfer, using cards to shop
  • After:

Paid cash, inactive accounts, prepaid cards

  • Cost:

“Gold customer” status unusable Hard time booking fmights and hotels Never managed to rent a car (should be doable though) Taxify blocks all my cards

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

CCTV

  • Before: Filmed by all CCTVs on the street & in shops
  • After:

Wearing a mask

  • Cost:

Security challenges you all the damn time

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Biometric passports

  • Before: ????
  • After:

Not giving up your fjngerprints

  • Cost:

Living without a passport & not getting to travel

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Creating photocopies of ID

  • Before: “Yes, of course you can copy my ID”
  • After:

“Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope”

  • Cost:

Cannot use Revolut / N26 Good people getting annoyed Had to call the cops on clerks at a hotel in Belgium Called an (_*_) by a banker

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Final tally for personal privacy

  • Social toll

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Communication challenges

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Disapproval by peers and society

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Limited social circle

  • Financial toll

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Limited choices on-line (goods, hotels, travel)

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Increased transportation costs

  • Technological toll

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Much more time needed to do the same things

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Impeded access to new tech

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Inability to take part in the IoT craze

  • No

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access to own data

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international travel

PRICELESS

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

What can we do?

  • Convince legislators

– Can’t lobby? Complain loudly on social media

  • r watch my presentation on lobbying
  • Develop privacy-conscious systems

– Not a dev? Demand that devs do that!

  • Don’t be complicit

– Stand up for yourself – Lead by example

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@KirilsSolovjovs, 2018. https://kirils.org

Who was that guy?

  • A privacy zealot, obviously
  • Lead researcher at Possible Security,

Latvia

  • Hacking and breaking things:

– Network fmow analysis & RE – Social engineering – Legal dimension

@KirilsSolovjovs Follow me! It’s all English!