This document discusses data security issues related to sharing information and using language technology services. It notes that internet-connected devices and cloud storage can be vulnerable to hacking. While services like Google and Microsoft claim they do not own users' data, their terms of service allow them broad rights to use submitted content. The document recommends options for more secure self-hosted personal cloud solutions and discusses how language service providers can discuss data security with clients.

1. Language Technology
and the Sharing
Economy
Joseph Wojowski
Director of Operations at Foreign Credits, Inc.
MATI Vice President
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2. Sharing Economy
• Frequently used examples
• Crowd funding
• Uber
• Lyft
• airbnb

3. Sharing Economy and Technology
• Cloud computing
• GNU Project
• Open-source software
• Volunteer computing
• Copyleft
• Open content

4. Assumptions
• Internet connected device = vulnerable.
• Vulnerable = can compromise data security
• Contact with peripherals that have been connected to the
internet = vulnerable (See Wired, from November 3, 2014).
• “Cloud storage” still involves storing data in a physical location,
somewhere.

5. Assumptions
• PRISM Government Surveillance
Program, you understand that when you
use services provided by Microsoft,
Google, Yahoo, Apple, etc., you’re
essentially also giving data to the US
government (or at the very least, giving
them permission to give to the US
Government which is a very big target for
hackers).

6. Assumptions
• All hackers need is the desire
to break into something and
time, and they will succeed.
• Information is beautiful,
interactive infographic on the
biggest data breaches since
2004.

7. Ways We Share Information and Risk Data
Security
• E-mail
• Cloud storage
• FTP
• TM Selling
• In-browser Machine Translation
interfaces
• MT Application Program Interfaces
(APIs)

8. Google Terms and Conditions
• One T&C Statement for all of Google’s services.
• § Your Content in our Services
• “You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in
that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.”

9. Google T&C
• When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or
through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a
worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create
derivative works (such as those resulting from translations,
adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works
better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform,
publicly display and distribute such content.
• The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of
operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop
new ones.

10. Microsoft Translator Service Agreement
• § 9 Submissions Provided to Microsoft
• “Microsoft does not claim ownership of the content you or your
customers submitted to the Service. Your content remains your
content. Microsoft does not control, verify, or endorse the content
that you, your customers or others submit to the Service.”

11. Microsoft Translator Services Agreement
• If your subscription expires or is suspended, canceled or terminated,
all content submitted pursuant to that subscription may be
permanently deleted or irretrievable from Microsoft's servers.
Microsoft has no obligation to return such content to you.

12. Information Microsoft Collects (Logging)
• Text used to improve (train) the Translator engine amounts to
• No more than 10% of randomly selected, non-consecutive sentences from
submitted text.
• Sentences used are deleted within 48 hours after they are no longer required
to provide the translation.
• If services are rendered though the Translator API, you can opt-out of
logging by purchasing a subscription of 250 million characters or
more.

13. Microsoft Translator Logging
• 250,000,000 characters = $2,055.00/month
• Hypothetical scenario
• Every word = 50 characters each
• 5 million words per month (month = 31 days)
• Post-editor would have to process 161,290.323 words per day,
everyday.

14. Microsoft Translator Hub
• An optional feature with Translator that allows you to train your own
engine with preferred terminology and style.
• In The Hub, documents are stored in full to provide the personalized
translation system and to improve translator service.
• After a document is removed, Microsoft may continue to use it to
improve the Translator Service.
• You can opt out of logging at the 250 million character per month
level.

15. Cloud servers
• Your data
• Photos/Videos
• Documents
• Project files?
• Project Resources?
• TMs?
• Glossaries?
• Reference documents?
• Et cetera

16. Cloud Servers
• Individual storage space
partitioned on a larger server.
• Your user name and password
open your partition
• A company’s T&C/Privacy
statement applies
• Ex. Storing anything to Google
drive permits Google to use it as
they see fit.

17. Cloud Servers
Pros
• Convenient
• Multi-platform
• Initial no to low-cost
• Enhanced security from physical
threats (fire, theft, natural
disaster, etc.)
Cons
• Large files take up bandwidth
• Privacy: hackers and
governments may access your
data
• As storage need grows, so do
costs.

18. Cloud Servers
• While only your user name and
password can open your
lockbox, in being continuously
connected to the internet, your
server partition can be hacked.
• THIS HAS HAPPENED TO
INDIVIDUALS BEFORE

19. Cloud Solutions for the Paranoid
• Self-hosted Personal Cloud
Servers + Open Software
• ArkOS
• Tonido
• Commercial Personal Cloud
Devices
• Enclosed units
• Keep in mind
• Anything connected to the
internet is vulnerable.
• With personal cloud hosting, you
remove your data from larger
servers which can be more of a
target for hackers.
• With self-hosted Cloud solutions,
you control when the cloud is
connected and available.

20. Self-Contained Cloud Server
• Raspberry Pi 3 - $35
• MicroSD Card – 32GB - $10
• External Hard Drive with Power
Source
• Similarly, you could set it up on
an old computer.

21. Discussing Data Security with Clients
• Clients that use a public MT
engines: discuss
Google/Microsoft logging.
• Tonido file/folder Sharing link:
password protected guest
accounts
• .ize encrypted zip files
• Become familiar with the risks
inherent in using different
services
• Become familiar with password
protecting – learn about
password security
• Set yourself apart from other
providers and use these secure
practices as sales points

22. Non-disclosure agreements
• “Proprietary Information” All information disclosed to the
Translator by COMPANY shall be deemed to be “Proprietary
Information.”
• Proprietary Information shall not be disclosed by the Translator
to any third party without COMPANY’S prior written consent.
• All Proprietary Information shall remain the property of
COMPANY, shall be used only for the purpose intended, and
shall, at COMPANY’S discretion, be returned by the Translator
after the Translator’s need for it has expired, upon request by
COMPANY, and in any event upon expiration or termination of
the AGREEMENT.

23. Thank you
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