Digital Privacy Revisited

Personal data are the lifeblood of today's economy

But our privacy regulations date from when they weren't Structured data Scattered grains of information Collected by visible, identified sources Ubiquitous sources (icl. things; others; ourselves…) Produced in an organized and conscious manner Byproducts of almost all human activities Stored in well-known locations Distributed and replicated Yesterday Today

We should probably be worried stiff…

… But we don't really seem to be

It's called the "Privacy Paradox" Google Trends: "Privacy" … But a paradox in whose eyes?

In fact, people seem to know what they're doing… Differentiation Shared "decency"

… It's just that they're motivated by several things "Me" Reaching out , connecting, showing off, marketing myself Control over my visibility, presence, reputation… Convenience , simplicity, savings, personalization… Self-identity building * individuals, vendors, institutions, communities… Analysis, evaluation Others *

Privacy as seclusion isn't that valuable…

… But privacy as autonomy is

Because protection and projection are inseparable, we need a new set of tools Empower Protect Educate information tools skills

Some tools already exist, some need research

Let's think of how the Net could forget…

… (Forgetting is what memory does all the time)… Transience: the fading or loss of details over time Absent-mindedness: distractedness built into the sensing technologies Blocking: the random impossibility to answer specific queries Misattribution: the specific misrecording of part of an event, but not the whole event Suggestibility: the plausible rescripting certain events after a particular time Bias: re-writing all events based on pattern recognition to create a record that is consistent and plausible but subtly different ‘ Outlines of a world coming into existence’: Pervasive computing and the ethics of forgetting Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin "Rather than focus on the prescriptive needs for privacy protections, we envisage necessary processes of forgetting (…) that should be in-built into the system ensuring a sufficient degree of imperfection, loss and error" Loss-Based Error-Based

… Turn uncertainty into a feature, not a bug?

Let's take heteronyms for serious

Let's use personal data for personal motives…

… And invent the Right to Data Return

Finally, let's turn digital identity into a skill

Let's use personal data for personal motives Paul Downey

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