Privacy Cartoons
Cartoons by Chris Slane relating to privacy. More cartoons are stored offline, including versions translated into French, Swedish and Norwegian.
Cartoon depicts people in an elevator one saying "Careful some people have big ears round here" while a clown stands next to them.
Cartoon depicts a detective with a large magnifying glass tacking the large footprints packed with social media posts and logos behinf a young man who notices and says "!"
"Theres just so much personal information with databases."
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Man peeps through keyhole of door outside of which also stands a sign labelled 'Integritets Konferens'
Man comments to people putting up a sign labelled 'Privacy Forum' "Gosh - are you allowed to do that?"
"For gododness sake - turn your location app off!" pleads Dr Frankenstein of his monster as they are being persued by a mob of angry villagers.
"Meet Wibley - he's our expert in functional creep" says office worker to a female office worker.
Cartoon depicts a dotcom entrepreneur and his son indicating a urban landscape of buildings outside a window one is labelled 'Gamesoft' "One day all this will be virtually yours"
Dear [ blank ]Your ID was used to sign in via a new web browser, app or device.Date and Time: 25 May 2018If you recently signed in, you can disregard this email.If you have not signed in online recently and believe someone may have accessed your social media account, abused or sold your data to unscrupulous third parties you should immediately reset your password and consider moving your account to a tech company that complies with GDPR. ( GDPR is a new EU regulation giving control to citizens over their personal data and simplifying rules for international business. )
GDPR Support
Office worker holding files says: "Get all the info you can, we'll think of a use for it later."
Office worker holding files says: "Get all the info you can, we'll think of a use for it later."
Cartoon depicts two office workers sitting opposite behind large computers "Didn't you get my email?
Cartoon depicts a state computer intelligence operative saying "We've managed to crack the code these computer geeks are using but it is still gibberish"
A horde of greedy gold minner cowboys and hucksters stampedes towards the data fields - subtitle: 'The New Goldrush'
"All ok - wait - let's see what Google remembers..." says Saint Peter at the gate to heaven.
Cartoon depcts a man talking to a womanwhile giant location pin and flag symbols hover over his head "Don't worry - it's just my mother tracking me with GPS"
"These records are not GDPR-compliant" points out a man reading the big book of sinners at the gate of Heaven.
"These records are inaccurate ot of date and misleading. Haven't you got a privacy and information code yet?" queries a man at heaven's gate.
"Den egentlige hensikten med urintestingen er vel å nedverdige våre ansatte?"
"I take it that the real advantage of urine testing is the humiliation of our workers" says a management executive.
Cartoon depicts an official behind a counter informing a client to fill out a form 'Information sharing' you tell me everything about yourself and I'll tell you when to stop"
The lady in the information window says to a man "We don't give it out only collect it."
The lady in the information window says to a man "We don't give it out only collect it."
Cartoon depicts a job interview with a grumpy panel memeber saying "We were going to employ you but then we discovered your main hobby was blabbing all over the internet" Subtitle - Careful what you share on the internet'
Cartoon depicts a medical man with a needle asking a job applicant "You here for the job interview?"
Man leaning in a window of a house says to a woman seated inside -"Just looking thanks."
"Do we really need this? asks a man pulling out a rock labelled 'privacy' and precipitating a rock fall of large boulders...landslide,privacy,rock,privacy,rockfall,.."Do we really need this? asks a man pulling out a rock labelled 'privacy' and precipitating a rock fall of large boulders labelled ‘brand’ ’trust’ ‘reputation’ 'profits' 'ethics'
"Now I wonder who among us might have a lower privacy threshold than others?" asks a man giving a lecture to a room of people from different cultural backgrounds,
"We still don't understand the need for a privacy act -can you explain it again Commissioner" ask paparazzi pressing on the door of an outside toilet on a hill in the countryside.
Cartoon depicts a lecturer who is dreesed only in his underwaer saying to a mixed audience "Now I wonder who among us might have a lower privacy threshold than others?"
Shop assistant warns customer of loyalty card tracking...loyalty,card,customer,shop,tracking,monitoring,data,collection,surveilance,
Cartoon depicts a man looking out the window of his house through binoculars saying to his wife "Good grief the man next door iis staring at me through high powered binoculars"
Leader says: " We need surveillance to find out what the masses really think." Underling: "Isn't that what elections are for?"
Cartoon depicts a woman behind a desk filling in a form on a computer screen talking to another woman who has peices of her head missing pieces of a jigsaw "We can give you much better service if you fill in a few missing peices about yourself" caption - 'Cookies are created to identify you when you visit a new website.'
Man pushes through a crowd around a body saying "Let me through - I have a morbid curiosity."
"This is the cheapest option in our range" says the shopkeeper offering a range of privacy enhancing technology, to a man with a zip over his mouth.
'You seem much nicer than your Facebook page" says leader of a panel to a job interviewee.
Cartoon shows an office in the NSA HQ where one man says to the other 'We have installed a bugging device for every leader in the world' The other man replies "Excellent what is it?" to which he responds "The iphone'".

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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