Cloud Privacy and Security

This report discusses the personal and ethical implications of the proposed Government’s Smart Sensor Network and Smart WiFi Network in Australia. It covers the categories of people affected, behavioral changes, and implications for privacy and security. The report also highlights the benefits of using digital identity to maintain privacy while using mobile devices.

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Introduction
The world is experiencing an evolution to the smart Nation plan (Cuzzocrea, 2014). These
emerge from the innovation in the IT that has created new economic as well as social
opportunities they could pose challenges to the security and expectations of privacy (Arpaci,
Kilicer & Bardakci, 2015). The human they have already been interconnected through the smart
gadgets. Smart energy meters, security devices as well as smart appliances are being
implemented in many cities CBD. Some of these consist of network of smart sensors and
cameras at the traffic lights, bus stops, rubbish bins, which are implemented in the CBD to
monitor on the citizen behavior and address on the street crime. In this report, it is a reflection on
security and privacy which would discuss various tasks and scenarios which are based on these
aspects.
Task 1
1. Discuss what you see as the personal and ethical implications for your privacy of the
proposed Government’s Smart Sensor Network by looking at:
a) The type or categories of people affected by this proposal.
In Australia there are various ethical and personal implications for the privacy proposal by
the government to different categories of individuals who are affected by this aspect. When
this proposal would be implemented individual such the working class category would be
affected (Cuzzocrea, 2014). This would be through electronic monitoring of the people in the
workplace. This would relate to access of personal information through electronic eyes. This
would occur where the government would use technology to spy of personal information of
people (In Ko & Choo, 2015). The ethical implication in this case is the uses of these

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technologies since individual privacy in the workplace have been threatened. Another
category of individual are technology experts. The implementation of this plan would lead
the government to intercept and read the E mail messages (Sen, 2014). This poses ethical
problems that relates to private communication of people. It is technically possible when it
comes to intercepting Email messages and read and this is justified by the ideal that they will
use this technology infrastructure (Sen, 2014). Professional are another category and the
personal implication is categories of personal as well as private data the information
professional is entitled to gather. Another category are the immigrant, these are the people
who are not the nationality of this country. The personal implication from this proposal is
that the government could access their personal information to identify their origin and
identify what they are doing in the country.
b) What behavioural changes you might expect to see from normal citizens
Some of the behavioral changes which would be encountered by the normal citizens when the
proposal has been implemented are there as follows; less interaction online. Individuals would
less likely interact online since the information which they post or access would be monitored.
Another behavior change would be on the speech patterns, which depend on the social situation.
Some individuals would tend to change their language because they fear to be monitored on the
way they use the language (Lau, 2015). When the proposal has been made normal citizen some
would rejoice since the smart sensor network it would help monitor the citizen’s behavior and
address on the crime rate. At some places in the CBD there are criminal activities, thus there are
some people who would be happy that such issues are monitored and the crime rate would
reduce. Moreover, the behaviors of people would change particularly to those who were engaged
in the criminal activities since there are monitoring devices which are in place. Individuals are

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more attentive to details and those at default of not observing rules they begin to observe
particular in the installation of the smart sensor network at the bus stops and rubbish bins. There
are no overtaking cases and individuals observe tidiness.
Would you expect to see changes in individual behaviours, such as choice of activities,
changes in time schedules?
When the proposed plan is implemented there are changes in activities amongst individuals. For
example, there are those individuals who were involved in the criminal activities and they often
escaped without getting caught. When the new smart sensors and cameras are implemented all
the activities are captured and they could easily get caught. This also applies to those involved in
the cyber crime or the internet, all the sites they access the government is able to monitor on their
activities. Moreover, there are also changes in the time schedules of people due to the
implementation of the new technology in the CBD. With the new smart sensor network in place
individuals can set schedule to work even at night since the aspect of security has been taken
care of. There is someone who is always watching on any criminal activities from the system
which are set in place. I think behaviors in individuals will change even on the way the people
communicate in the social media, or the internet. Their privacy is no more thus the government
monitors on what people do while they are online.
Task 2
Discuss what you see as the personal and ethical implications for your privacy of the
proposed Government’s Smart WiFi Network by looking at:
a. The types or categories of people affected by this proposal,

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With the use of the smart WiFi Network which are installed across the city data there is
transmission of the data to the city databases as well as operation centers in real time, cities are
able to collect real time information related to traffic flows, pollution, water consumption and
electrify usage (Singh et al 2015). With this kind of devices there are numerous categories of
people that would be affected. First there are those working class groups, the government would
have access to their information in case they use the Wi-Fi network, and this leads to exposing of
the organization data since they could have used the devices to access crucial work data in case
there is policy of Bring Your Device (Sen, 2014). This is an ethical implication on the part of
the company since their information has been accessed. Additionally, it is also a personal
implication in case person information is accessed by another person who does not have
permission to access it. Another category of individual are the learners. These are the students,
who are within the city, more often they would wish to use this network to access the internet
since it is free throughout the city. This can be a personal implication especially when one
privacy on information has been accessed without their permission (Sun, Zhang, Xiong & Zhu,
2014). The smart WiFi network collect does not use notice and consent policies as well as back
end dataset anonymization to protect personal privacy.
b. What behavioural changes you might expect to see from normal citizens using their
mobile devices in the CBD.
As more individuals become connected online through their mobile device, there is shift in their
behavioral patterns which include the social interaction. This has been evident in the way the
demarcation between the public and private space has been understood. With the use of the
mobile devices in the CBD the normal citizen in Australia there is increase in the opportunities
for them in the public space. Business, interpersonal as well as entertainment activities will move

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from the social as well as static to the personal and mobile (Mather, Kumaraswamy & Latif,
2009). There is greater choice in the normal citizen as to who they would meet and how. The
physical society could, thus, become more hostile place via individual travel rather than in which
they expect to interact. It would also be observed that in this environment, people could become
less real to one another, and this leads to extreme reactions and interactions (In Ko & Choo,
2015). There will be a social change that is illustrated by the behaviour patterns that is associated
to the mobile phone usage, whereby many individuals would conduct private conversations in
the public places with little regard to their own privacy. It would also be observed that the mobile
access to the internet could shape behavior in the public. The behavioral aspects of the smart
WiFi network have consequences when it comes to criminal opportunities to exploit the security
vulnerabilities which the mobile network entails (Jaiswal & Chandra, 2017). These opportunities
could be understood in terms of the benefits as well as risk that are associated to this technology.
Normal citizens would be having more mobility. Individuals could connect to the internet from
various more places; this frees them from the necessity to bring physical location in the office as
well as large amount of the data since they can now download onto the small devices.
c. Would you expect to see changes in individual behaviours, such as choice of activities,
changes in time schedules, etc.
I would definitely expect to see changes in individuals’ behaviours. When individual uses the
Government’s Smart WiFi Network they could access it and use it the way they want, however,
their behaviors would likely change such choice of activities. When a person is using a network
that is not secured nor charged they can forget their routines and engage with other activities.
This is applicable when a person is in the workplace (Krutz & Vines, 2010). They could be
distracted and engages themselves in other activities rather than the tasks assigned since they can

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access free internet. This kind of behavior could lead to people to people become less productive
in their workplace since they are engaging to other activities. There are also changes in
individual behavior when it comes to changes in the time schedules. Individuals can change their
work schedule or activities schedules since they are engaged to the other activities in the internet
(Kalaiprasath, Elankavi & Udayakumar, 2017). Sometimes, people could be engaged to other
activities and they forget they are supposed to go somewhere or do a certain task. Internet can
sometimes be addictive and someone could be distracted in whatever they are doing. In the CBD
the network is free and thus there could be change in behavior in some individual such as those
who engages to criminal activities. The network might not be secure and this provides an
opportunity to the hackers to steal other people person information who access the network and
they have not secured their information (In Ko & Choo, 2015). Moreover, personal privacy may
not be there since everyone could see information which is not encrypted. There are no
anonymity policies which are in place to cater for such issues.
d. What are the implications for you if you had sensitive information on your mobile device
that you did not want to share?
One of the implications in case I had sensitive information on the mobile devices that I did not
want to share would increase vulnerability. There is increases unwanted distribution of the
sensitive or harmful information. When one access the WiFi this information which I did not
want to share would be exposed to the other people. There is a selection of threats that I will be
exposed in since criminals could leak the information or they could demand payment or they
expose the information. There is implication of legal liability in case the information was
sensitive in nature. In case the information is related to an organization or an individual I could
risk legal action incase this information was to be exposed to the parties who are not supposed to

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see the information. This could be a form of negligent treatment on personal information, such as
that of the employees or broader databases, and I could encounter huge fines, or even jail time.
Another implication is that of the unintended data leakages. This regards to the storage of the
critical data on insecure locations on the mobile. When the data is accessed by the other users
within the network it could lead to devastating effect since there is breach of the user privacy
which leads to the unauthorized use of the data (Takabi, Joshi & Ahn, 2010). There is also the
implication of negative perception. The explosion of the data mining and the cyber attack has
made individuals to be paranoid in regards on the way sensitive information is handled. In the
case of using the Smart WiFi network the network might not be secure and this is a vulnerability
to threats since the sensitive data I did not want shared could be accessed especially when a
hacker put a bug on the network to access sensitive information (Sen, 2014). This could lead to
negative perception of brand in case it was related to the organization information. A single data
attack such as breach of the sensitive information destroys on the users trust in the brand but
could lead to hefty court cases as well as irreparable damage to the way in which individuals and
business performs.
Task 3
Question 3: do you think that the use of a digital identity would assist you to maintain your
privacy while using your mobile phone or devices during your visit?
Yes I think it would assist maintain privacy when using mobile phone or other devices. Privacy
is the human right. It is crucial since it pertain to our identity on who we are, what we do and
what we would want to do. Digital identities are made up of all the new information for
examples the phones pass codes, of which could be accessed by an individual just by picking out

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smartphones. Digital identity would help maintain privacy in a number of ways these are
follows;
It builds privacy into the digital identity design: this can be achieved through market model that
has key stages such as ideation, experimentation, commercialization as well as optimization.
This process ensures that there is value proposition for the digital identity and this is tested
through viability. The privacy and the security principles are the key product development. The
aspect of digital identity is the opt—in for the consumers who have the choice to verify their
identity in case they interact online and then re-using that identity in various context later. This
ensures that individuals are able to control their identity data and they would be able to reuse it
for any other type of service online. Through digital identity individuals are able to maintain
their privacy since the users are always asked for their consent to disclose specific information.
All the other information is usually stored in ones digital identity, but it is not relevant to the
service since it will not be exchanged. Digital identity is regarded as biometric as an identifier
for the future (Wei et al 2014). The use of digital identity utilizes biometric such as matching
facial features, for the purpose of authenticating identity, as well as protecting ones privacy. I
have noticed that establishing references at time requires a stringent process since it could be
subject to spoofing or perhaps compromise. Biometry has already been evolved and new
functionalities would help us to overcome this challenge.
Task 4
Question 4: steps do you think that you could take to ensure the security and privacy of
your s) in this environment? Discuss each step that you would take along with its
advantages and disadvantages.

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1. Practice good password hygiene. One should use strong unique passwords to all the
accounts that are connected, along with the separate code to lock the mobile device itself.
One could use a combination of upper and lower case letter, and use one number or a
symbol. The advantage of this ensures that it becomes hard to crack the password. The
disadvantage of this one could forget these passwords when combined all these letters
and symbols.
2. Review of the privacy settings often. It is important for one to keep tabs on all the apps
which have permission to access your calendar, location and contact list. It is important
for one to ensure everything that can be accessed on your private content really requires
some kind of permission (Cuzzocrea, 2014). The advantage of this ensures that only
permission is granted when required and rather not all the application. This helps to
ensures there is privacy and security of private data (Verginadis et al 2017). The
disadvantage of this it could be difficult to update some of the application that is on the
mobile device.
3. Log out of your accounts: any time you log in to various account, it is important to log
out to prevent unscrupulous individuals to access ones data. The advantage of this
ensures that personal data has been kept secure (Yu et al 2017). The disadvantage when
one log out of the accounts you can forget on the credentials to access the accounts again.
4. Minimizing of the amount which is saved on your device: when one saves a lot of data in
ones phone increases on the likelihood that a hacker could piece together enough data and
do some serious damage (Hoboken & Rubinstein, 2014). The advantage of this ensures
only necessary data is saved in the phone and through digital identity they can keep only
the necessary information on them phone and prevent others from accessing. The

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disadvantage to this almost all personal data would not be stored on the phone and this
could be crucial personal information that should always be kept secured.
Conclusion
In this research it is a reflection on privacy and security tasks. Within this research it has
discussed on various tasks which are related to how the Australian State Government in the
implementation of the Smart State plan. There are issues related to personal and ethical
implications in regards to my privacy have been discussed at length.

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