privacy: getting beyond 'meh

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A presentation for SuperMondays on Monday 28th July 2014.

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PRIVACYGetting beyond ‘meh’.

– Open Mike Eagle, Dark Comedy Morning Show

“Cause Google knows what's in my cabinet And Facebook logs all of my favorite sandwiches

And what they need the damn data for To analyze the shit they'd need a whole 'nother labor force”

"A building circular... The prisoners in their cells, occupying the

circumference— The officers in the centre. By blinds and other

contrivances, the Inspectors concealed... from the observation of

the prisoners: hence the sentiment of a sort of omnipresence — The whole

circuit reviewable with little, or... without any, change of place. One

station in the inspection part affording the most perfect view of every cell."

– Jeremy Bentham Proposal for a New and Less Expensive mode of

Employing and Reforming Convicts (1798)

“This disciplinary aspect of panoptic observation involves a productive soul training which encourages inmates to reflect upon the minutia of their own behaviour in subtle and ongoing efforts to transform their selves.”

– Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of a Prison (1975)

[BUT WHAT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?]

But what about NATIONAL SECURITY?

[BUT WHAT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?]

You mean GOVERNMENT

SURVEILLANCE?

[BUT WHAT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?]

Yeah, that.

Dragnet approaches to collecting data are inefficient

We live in a democracy, but can we be sure we can trust future governments with our personal data?

Do we need to choose?

PRIVACY SECURITY

NO

Related, but different.

PRIVACYSECURITY

PRIVACY…is why we put curtains on our

windows

SECURITY…is why we put

locks on our doors

[BUT WHAT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?]

Yeah, well people who want privacy obviously have something to hide.

[BUT WHAT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?]REALLY?

How many of us use internet-enabled devices when we’re not fully clothed?

Police called after husband and wife use Google separately to search for innocuous items.

“What determines whether you look like you have something to hide? The robot builders have it in their best interests

to keep that secret: otherwise, the people with something to hide would simply start gaming the system. Yet

this can also result in a chilling effect: innocent people self-censoring their

online behavior based on what they think the robots might be looking for.”

– Atul Varma, Does Privacy Matter?

[BUT WHAT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?]

What if I’m happy to trade some privacy for

FREE, EASY-TO-USE SERVICES?

[BUT WHAT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?]

You mean CORPORATE

SURVEILLANCE?

[BUT WHAT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?]

Er, yeah.

We’re all familiar with email spam and people selling contact details…

…but what about all of that other data being triangulated without our knowledge/consent?

“Secondary use is the exploitation of data obtained for one purpose for an

unrelated purpose without the subject's consent. How long will

personal data be stored? How will the information be used? What could it be

used for in the future? The potential uses of any piece of personal

information are vast.”– The Chronicle Review,

Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'

READ

Privacy gives us space to play/explore facets of our identities

(beliefs, opinions, assumptions)

“Privacy norms help regulate social relationships such as intimate relations, family relationships, professional relationships including those between a physician and a patient, a lawyer or accountant and a client, a teacher and a student, and so on. Thus privacy enhances social interaction on a variety of levels.”

– Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Privacy

“Lampard was one of four Chelsea players who reportedly verbally abused American tourists who had been stranded at a Heathrow Airport hotel in the aftermath of 9/11 attacks. The drunken midfielder, then 23, and his teammates mocked them, stripped, swore and vomited in front of the group of Americans.”

"There is an emotional risk to having one’s past perfectly preserved. If we can’t forget, we remain tethered to our past rather than

being able to act in the present."

– Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Professor of Internet Governance, Oxford University

[BUT WHAT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?]

OK, so what can I do about all of this?

[BUT WHAT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?]

1. Prevent 2. Mitigate 3. Conserve

https://myshadow.org

https://mozilla.org/lightbeam

https://epic.org/privacy/tools.html

https://prism-break.org

https://tosdr.org

dougbelshaw.com @dajbelshaw

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SECURITY primarily affects you

PRIVACY affects everyone

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