Cartoons by Chris Slane relating to privacy. More cartoons are stored offline, including versions translated into French, Swedish and Norwegian.
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. 2013
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..
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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