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Information Security in a
Knowledge-Based Society
Frederick S. Lane
United States Consulate
Guangzhou, China
16 May 2018
New York City
Brooklyn
New York Public Library
Dr. Amy Werbel
The Four Millennials
Burlington School Bd.
9 Books
Books About Privacy
American Privacy
First Privacy Advocates
The American Revolution
• Pilgrims Land in Massachusetts (1620)
• Britain Issues Writs of Assistance
(1760)
• Tea from China is destroyed in the
Boston Tea Party (1773)
• The American Revolution Begins
(1775)
• Declaration of Independence (1776)
“So That a Man Can Stand Up”
The U.S. Constitution
• The Continental Congress Adopted the
Articles of Confederation (1781)
• The Articles Were Quickly Viewed as a
Failure, Since the Government Had No
Authority to Raise Money
• A New Constitution Was Proposed in
1787 and Ratified in 1790
• A Bill of Rights Was Adopted in 1792
The First Postmaster
Libraries in America
• Literacy Rates Rise in 1700s
• Private Book Clubs  Subscription Libraries
• First Founded Under Direction of Ben Franklin
(1731)
• First Lending Library in Franklin, MA (1778)
• Library of Congress (1800, 1815)
• First Public Library in Peterborough, NH
(1833)
• First Large Public Library – BPL (1848)
Franklin Public Library
Andrew Carnegie
• Born in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1835
• Emigrated to United States in 1848
• Couldn’t afford $2 for subscription library (1852)
• Sold Carnegie Steel to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for
$480 million. Richest man in America
• Turned to philanthropy with a focus on libraries
• Between 1883 and 1929, over 2,500 libraries
funded
• Rockland Memorial Library -- $12,500 grant in
1902
The Right to Privacy
“The Right to Privacy” (1890)
Photography in the 1880s
The U.S. Census
• The United States Constitution Requires that a
Census Be Conducted Every 10 Years
• The First Census Took Place in 1790 – The
U.S. Had a Population of Just 3.9 Million
People
• The 1880 Census Was Not Finished Until
1888 – The U.S. Had a Population of 50
Million People
• There Was Great Concern that the 1890
Census Count Would Not Be Finished by
1900
Early Computing
Postcards & Privacy
Privacy in the Computer Era
The Great Depression
• The American Stock Market Suffers a Terrible
Crash in 1929
• The United States Enters a Period Known as the
Great Depression (1929-1939)
• To Help Prevent Suffering in the Future, Congress
Passes the Social Security Act
• Under the Plan, the Government Tracks Each
Person’s Earnings and Pays Money During
Retirement Based on That Amount
• The Social Security Administration Develops the
Social Security Number to Distinguish Between
Similar Names
Social Security Number
Credit Cards
IBM 701
Early Personal Computers
Early Personal Computers
The World Wide Web
Google (1996)
The Smartphone Revolution
Rise of a Mobile World
• No More Landlines
• Individual Phone Numbers
• Multiple Messaging Channels
• Level Playing Field
• Millennial Technical Skills
• Massive Cultural Shifts
Selfie-Inflicted Wounds
• Thanks to Mobile Devices and the Internet, We
Generate and Share HUGE Amounts of Data
About Ourselves Every Second of the Day:
• Over 8,000 Tweets
• 844 Instagram Photos
• Nearly 67,000 Google Searches
• Over 73,000 YouTube Videos Are Viewed
• Nearly 2.7 Million Emails
Leading Social Channels
Whose Data Is It?
• Corporations in the United States Collect the Vast
Quantities of Data for Sale to Advertisers
• Unlike the Europeans, Americans Have Limited
Ability to “Opt-Out” of Data Collection
• Americans Also Have Limited Legal Remedies If
the Information Is Misused
• The Collection of So Much Data Creates a Risk
That It Will Be Misused for Political Purposes.
• Facebook and Other Social Media Companies Are
Under a Lot of Scrutiny Over What Happened in
the 2016 Election
A Win for Cellphone Privacy
Contact Information
• FSLane3@gmail.com
• 802-318-4604
• @FSL3, @Cybertraps
• www.FrederickLane.com
• http://www.fredericklane.com/the-
cybertraps-blog/
• ww.linkedin.com/in/fredericklane/
• www.slideshare.net/FSL3
Information Security in a
Knowledge-Based Society
Frederick S. Lane
United States Consulate
Guangzhou, China
16 May 2018