Botha, JEloff, MGrobler, M2017-02-032017-02-032016-09Botha, J., Eloff, M. and Grobler, M. 2016. Ethical and legal issues involved in the pro-active collection of personal information with the aim of reducing online disclosure. In: Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, 7-9 September 2016, Salford, United Kingdom978-3-319-44804-6http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44805-3_7http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8925Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, 7-9 September 2016, Salford, United Kingdom. . Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains the abstract of the full text item. For access to the full text item, please consult the publisher's website.Pro-actively finding leaked information online can potentially reduce detection times to limit the exposure time of personal information on publicly accessible networks. Often the breaches are discovered by an external third party and not the data owner. The time that data is exposed on the Internet has severe negative implications since a significant amount of information disclosed in a data breach has been proven to be used for cybercrime activities. It could be argued that any reduction of data breach exposure time should directly reduce the opportunity for associated cyber-crime. While pro-active breach detection has been proven as potentially viable in previous work, several aspects of such a system still need to be investigated. This paper aims to highlight some of the major ethical and legal issues when pro-actively collecting personal information, through a South African case study, to assist in reducing the amounts of personal information being disclosed online.enData breachEthical and legal issuesPrivacyIdentifiable informationArticleBotha, J., Eloff, M., & Grobler, M. (2016). Ethical and legal issues involved in the pro-active collection of personal information with the aim of reducing online disclosure. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8925Botha, J, M Eloff, and M Grobler "Ethical and legal issues involved in the pro-active collection of personal information with the aim of reducing online disclosure." (2016) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8925Botha J, Eloff M, Grobler M. Ethical and legal issues involved in the pro-active collection of personal information with the aim of reducing online disclosure. 2016; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8925.TY - Article AU - Botha, J AU - Eloff, M AU - Grobler, M AB - Pro-actively finding leaked information online can potentially reduce detection times to limit the exposure time of personal information on publicly accessible networks. Often the breaches are discovered by an external third party and not the data owner. The time that data is exposed on the Internet has severe negative implications since a significant amount of information disclosed in a data breach has been proven to be used for cybercrime activities. It could be argued that any reduction of data breach exposure time should directly reduce the opportunity for associated cyber-crime. While pro-active breach detection has been proven as potentially viable in previous work, several aspects of such a system still need to be investigated. This paper aims to highlight some of the major ethical and legal issues when pro-actively collecting personal information, through a South African case study, to assist in reducing the amounts of personal information being disclosed online. DA - 2016-09 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Data breach KW - Ethical and legal issues KW - Privacy KW - Identifiable information LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2016 SM - 978-3-319-44804-6 T1 - Ethical and legal issues involved in the pro-active collection of personal information with the aim of reducing online disclosure TI - Ethical and legal issues involved in the pro-active collection of personal information with the aim of reducing online disclosure UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8925 ER -