Ethics for the working mathematician, lecture 3: Cryptography, surveillance and privacy

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• Maurice Chiodo (University of Cambridge)
• Tuesday 29 October 2019, 16:00-17:00
• MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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Mathematicians have always played a central role in the making, and breaking, of cryptography. We also play a key role in developing surveillance tools, both for state actors and private organisations. Thus, we have several ways of enabling the infringement of the privacy of others. We can do so deliberately, by designing tools to break strong encryption, or indirectly, by creating systems and platforms which collect massive amounts of personal data of individuals. And we can do it accidentally, by being careless or sloppy in the way we store the data of others. In all of these cases, our work determines how much privacy people can have.

This talk is part of the C.U. Ethics in Mathematics Society (CUEiMS) series.

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