RAND mathematician Mary Lee describes the wide variety of personal data collected by smart devices and applications, such as smartwatches, brain implants, and period trackers.
Facial recognition technology is developing rapidly and is increasingly being used in policing. What do policymakers need to understand in order to minimize the risks it poses, while also maximizing its benefits?
More than 740 publications are annotated pertaining to the protecting individual privacy and civil rights, providing confidentiality through statutory and regulatory means, and providing access controls and security to information stored and processed.
A discussion of the principles and costs involved in designing, implementing, and operating protective systems in personal information databanks. All databank systems containing identifiable, personal information require adequate procedural and tech...
There is an increasing need for providing privacy and security in telecommunication and teleprocessing networks. This paper presents a brief survey of privacy systems--the techniques that can be used to provide communications security in commercial ...
This paper outlines the background and dimensions of the problem: how computer technology has influenced society in the last ten years, the need for privacy in recordkeeping as well as computer security, and options for a framework of legal controls.
The growing number of automated personal data files, collected for different purposes, can be linked to obtain individual dossiers, especially using Social Security numbers.
Privacy transformations, both reversible and irreversible, are techniques for increasing data security and privacy in computerized databank systems. Irreversible transformations, such as data aggregation, are used primarily in statistical databanks....
The problem of providing privacy transformations for databanks and retrieval systems falls into two modern disciplines: information theory and computer science. In this paper the concern is primarily with the former. Here it is shown that measures o...
The problem of providing cost-effective data security safeguards in personal information databanks is addressed. A structural model of databank systems is formulated, the roles of its elements in providing or threatening data privacy and security ar...
Recital of RAND's pioneering efforts from the beginning of the computer era to resolve the complex privacy and security problems arising from the proliferation of computer systems and their applications. Of first concern was the protection of classi...
Examines the social and technical implications of information systems in relation to the individual's ability to control the dissemination of information about himself.
A discussion of the problem of maintaining privacy in an age of computerized credit transactions, and a proposal that some government agency be charged with the responsibility for protecting citizens' privacy.
Paper prepared in 1967 that outlines the configuration of a typical remote-access, multi-user resource-sharing computer system and identifies some of its vulnerabilities to unauthorized divulgence of information.
