Seminars & Events

MCS Student Lecture Series
"“Pervasive Technologies: Will an Intelligent City be Friendly?”"

DATE: July 11, 2011
TIME: 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
SPEAKER: Charlie Catlett, Sr. Computer Scientist, MCS
LOCATION: TCS Conference Center, Rms 1404 and 1405, Argonne National Laboratory

Description:
Our smartphones are providing increasingly sophisticated and useful social and commercial services. These rely on our willingness to reveal our location and to provide financial and identify information to a growing number of third parties, from Amazon to Google to Paypal to Starbucks. Reaction to news about smartphones tracking user movement, or GPS user data being disclosed to governments for optimization of speed traps has been mixed, but suggest that our comfort with loss of privacy may be tied to unexamined and in many cases naive expectations regarding its future availability and use. We will discuss the technology behind these types of services and experimental systems we are exploring with privacy as a design factor rather than an add-on, or completely absent, feature.

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