Cellular Convergence and the Death of Privacy

Stephen B. Wicker is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, and a member of the graduate fields of Information Science and Computer Science. He teaches and conducts research in wireless and wired information networks, privacy-aware design, computer security, and digital telephony. His research focuses on the interface between information networking technology, law, and sociology, with a particular emphasis on how design choices and regulation can affect the privacy and speech rights of users. He is the author of six books, holds a number of patents, and has received four Cornell teaching awards. He is the Cornell Principal Investigator for the National Science Foundation TRUST Science and Technology Center, a research center dedicated to cybersecurity, electronic privacy, and the protection of critical infrastructure. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

• PREFACE ; PART I CELLULAR CONVERGENCE ; CHAPTER ONE: CELLULAR CONVERGENCE ; The Evolution of a Cellular World ; Politics and the Cellular Platform ; Surveillance and Control ; PART II CELLULAR SURVEILLANCE ; CHAPTER TWO: CELLULAR SURVEILLANCE ; The Origins of Wiretapping ; Built-In Location Surveillance ; Taking It to the Next Level ; The Carrier IQ Debacle ; CHAPTER THREE: CELLULAR SURVEILLANCE AND THE LAW ; The Fourth Amendment ; Search and Seizure of Electrical Communication ; Protecting (or Not) the Context of Communication ; The ECPA and Cellular Privacy ; CALEA and the USA PATRIOT ACT ; Concluding Thoughts ; CHAPTER FOUR: PRIVACY AND THE IMPACT OF SURVEILLANCE ; Defining Privacy ; When Privacy is Invaded ; Bentham, Foucault, and the Panoptic Effect ; When You Don't Know You Are Being Watched ; Location-Based Advertising - The Ultimate Invasion? ; Location-Based Advertising and the Philosophy of Place ; Concluding Thoughts ; PART III CELLULAR CONTROL ; CHAPTER FIVE: THE ROLE OF THE FCC ; The Early Years of Wireless and the Politics of Spectrum ; The FCC Creates Roadblocks for Early Mobile Systems ; The FCC and the Future of Cellular Convergence ; CHAPTER SIX: THE ARCHITECTURE OF CENTRALIZED CONTROL ; A Centralized Architecture ; End-to-End Architectures ; Architecture and Innovation ; Architecture and Censorship ; Concluding Thoughts ; PART IV CELLULAR SOLUTIONS: OPTIONS FOR PRIVACY PROTECTION ; CHAPTER SEVEN: Working within the Current System - Cryptology and Private Communication ; Cryptology: The Art of Secret Communication ; Early Crypto ; The Politics of Cryptography ; Public Key Cryptography and Digital Signatures ; A Private Overlay for Cellular Handsets ; Privacy-Aware Location-Based Services ; Concluding Thoughts ; CHAPTER EIGHT: THROW THE OLD SYSTEM OUT - BRING IN A CELLULAR COMMONS ; Unlicensed Spectrum - A Radio Commons ; WiFi Telephony Shows the Way ; End-to-End Cellular and Open Source Development ; Privacy-Aware Mobility Management ; Concluding Thoughts ; CHAPTER NINE: A RIGHT TO SURVEILLANCE-FREE CELLULAR ACCESS? ; Cellular Access to the Internet ; A Right to Access the Internet? ; Rights, Freedom of Expression, and the Internet ; Beyond Enablement ; Consequences of Rights Status ; A Right to be Free of Government Surveillance? ; A Right to be Free of Corporate Surveillance? ; A Closing Thought ; TABLE OF CASES ; INDEX