Privacy Cartoons
Cartoons by Chris Slane relating to privacy. More cartoons are stored offline, including versions translated into French, Swedish and Norwegian.
Three bears return home. Little bear asks "Who's been trawling through my personal information?".
Snow Whites's seven dwarves have gone into data-mining. They sing, "Heigh-ho, it's off to work we go..."
"I only told a few friends" claims a man on a computer connected to a multitude of friends.
cartoon depicts an AGM in heaven with God stating "I have decided to contract the all-seeing function out to Google"
"Da er vi enige - vi går I gang med å samkjøre informasjonen I registrene vare."
So - its agreed - we go ahead with the information matching." says God to a representatives of the CIA direct marketing Santa and the devil.
So - its agreed - we go ahead with the information matching." says God to a representatives of the CIA direct marketing Santa and the devil. Meeting of powerful people decides to go ahead with integrating their databases.
"Don't worry madam we are all most interested in privacy at this organisation" claims man as other staff evesdrop on conversation.
Medieval soldiers charge with battering ram. One soldier cautions: "Wait! Has anyone done a privacy impact assessment?"
Medieval soldiers charge with battering ram. One soldier cautions: "Attendez! Est-ce que quelqu'un a fait évaluation des factueurs relatifs à la vie privée."
Medieval soldiers charge with battering ram. One soldier cautions: "Wait! Has anyone done a privacy impact assessment?"....battering.ram.soldiers.castle.caution.
Medieval soldiers charge with battering ram. One soldier cautions: "Wait! Has anyone done a privacy impact assessment?"
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"That's good material - mind if I take a few notes?" asks a barman of his depressed customer.
A retro-soviet-style propaganda poster shows man rejoicing in the love he imagines an all-seeing eye hovering above is bestowing upon him - caption reads 'Big Data Loves You'
"The boss likes to keep a close eye on me" says a female employee in a binocular shop.
Hvis sjefen spør hvorfor du ikke fikk lagd artikken, skyld på personopplysningsloven, funker hver gang.
"If the editor asks why you didn't get the story blame the Privacy Act - works every time" says one journalist to another while the editor storms away fuming.
Cartoon depicts Little Bo Peep looking for sheep and finding them with a GPS tracker Little Bo Peep lost her sheep but found them right away with her GPS tracking device'
"The leak was worse than first thought" notes a bypasser of a boy stuck head-first into the wall of a digital dyke.
"The leak was worse than first thought" notes a bypasser of a boy stuck head-first into the wall of a digital dyke.
"Hi, we've changed your privacy settings" announces the tech guys who have just knocked a hole in the privacy wall of a family at dinner.
Cartoon depicts a woman introducing a creep to her parents "This is George I met him through caller ID.
Cartoon depicts a man alone at desk in large room who addresses a mass of cctv cameras attched to a ceiling. "Thank you all for attending this first conference of the surveillance camera recording industry."
Two chopping blocks are marked 'Unauthorised Disclosure of Information' and 'Unauthorised witholding of Information'.
Patient watches a hospital cleaner lean in to evesdrop in on a private consultation among a medical team.
Patient watches a hospital cleaner lean in to evesdrop in on a private consultation among a medical team.
Cartoon depicts a businessman running through a cloud towards the sun"Wow - cloud computing is a new dawn" while trip hazard obstacles lie below -"hackers' 'Leaks' 'customer distrust'
'If Computers Were Houses' Spies invading a family's home say "You read a lot of books don't you - "You watch a lot of foreign movies" - They have fertiliser in the shed" - "Writing a lot of emails to people overseas are we?"- "Look- a copy of the Koran" - "Don't mind us we're just having a look around" 2013
Cartoon depicts a shop window full of computer screens which follow a passer-by like eyes
"Miss Digby if you have any concerns about personal privacy in the organisation I'm sure we'd all like to hear them" demands a male boss to a feamle employee as a crowd of workers listens.
Cartoon depicts woman relaxing while cookies biscuits dance on her compter keyboard and click her mouse for her as she says to a man "I find it much easier allowing cookies to fill out online forms for me"
Cartoon depicts children selling home-baked cookies and lemonade with an adult about to bite a cookie - boy says "Your information won't be shared but would you like to receive offers from our partners?" as a girl waits expectantly.
"Basically we feel every law is a cost to business" says one man representing a wealthy minority.
Cartoon depicts the office of a Credit Agency Pwhere a myopic clerk announces to a woman of colour "Don't worry we have comprehensive picture of you - a 55 year old caucasion male midget bankrupted 18 times convicted of fraud 35 times with a sailor's tattoo- is there anything I have left out?"
Cartoon depicts the office of a credit agency where a myopic clerk announces to a woman of colour "Don't worry we have comprehensive picture of you - a 55 year old caucasion male midget bankrupted 18 times convicted of fraud 35 times with a sailor's tattoo- is there anything I have left out?"
"We decided your curtains are better on the outside" says PM John Key as a woman inside the house covers herself with a towel - cartoon refers to moves to increase spying powers over the domestic public - The Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill
Cartoon shows a CEO pointing and shouting "Full speed ahead and damn torpedoes!" - 'Privacy Impact Assessment at Chief Executive Level'
A gold miner exits his mine and notices a computer extracting mountains of data for profit...metadata,mining,data,profit,
"My whole digital life just data breached before my eyes" - says a young woman lying on the road to her friend.
"Still fine-tuning your privacy settings I see" says a woman to another with digitally-blurred facial features.
Cartoon shows Diwali lights and symbols representing elements of computer security with the message "Happy Diwali - May the light win over thedarkness of cyber evil".
"I am now cutting all my rude remarks about the patient from her file" says a surgeon in an operating theatre..
A dog marking a tree with his urine is warned by another; "You know you can be tracked."
Press man plays blind man's buff with donkey tail while a devious bureacrat moves the donkey chart labelled 'Official Information' out of reach.
Chris Slane's sense of humor is sharp and wicked and so much to the point! The very last cartoon shows a couple on the beach saying "It's so good to get away from it all" while everyone is taking photos with their mobiles. It makes a point I have been making for a while now: some of the loss of privacy is a consequence of things we do to ourselves or to each other."
Chris Slane has drawn cartoons on cyber security since 1992. These have grown into a substantial collection and are licensed to corporations, governmental, health and privacy authorities around the world. Cartoons cover subjects such as data breaches, cybersecurity or cybersec, dataleaks, hacking, cyberattacks, malware, ITsecurity, phishing and are used as aids in staff awareness and training.
More about Chris at his Bio page.
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