Post Privacy

What should we do after the fail ofprivacy?

@PeterKraker

#knowcenter

First off

• Fueled by previous discussions at #bcg10 and#websci11

• The core of the problem is NOT theinformation that you provide voluntarily

• This talk is intentionally provocative to start a discussion

Why privacy will fail

• All data that exist about us is stored digitally

• Digital data is fugitive (easy to copy, hard toprotect)

• See: Wikileaks, Anonymous, various datascandals near you

• Information can be inferred from othersources (e.g. social graph) jigsaw puzzle effect

Therefore

Data protection is a lost cause (andsometimes not even the solution)

Voluntarily provided information is only thetip of the iceberg

My prediction

• Not all data will be apparantly visible

• But almost all data will be somehowobtainable

• A grey market for personal data

• The important questions are not if or whenprivacy will fail, but what we should do whenit happens

What will we do?

• What I DO NOT think will work:

– Let‘s just wait and see, society will be better if wesee that no one is whithout fail

• Concepts

– Information accountability (Weitzner et al.)

– What else?