The document discusses how privacy will inevitably fail as digital data becomes easier to copy and infer from multiple sources. It predicts that while not all data will be visibly available, almost all data will be obtainable in some way, such as through a grey market. Rather than waiting to see how society adapts, the document calls for a discussion on how to address this failure of privacy, such as through concepts of information accountability.

1. Post Privacy
What should we do after the fail of
privacy?
@PeterKraker
#knowcenter

2. First off
• Fueled by previous discussions at #bcg10 and
#websci11
• The core of the problem is NOT the
information that you provide voluntarily
• This talk is intentionally provocative to start a
discussion

3. Why privacy will fail
• All data that exist about us is stored digitally
• Digital data is fugitive (easy to copy, hard to
protect)
• See: Wikileaks, Anonymous, various data
scandals near you
• Information can be inferred from other
sources (e.g. social graph)  jigsaw puzzle
effect

4. Therefore
 Data protection is a lost cause (and
sometimes not even the solution)
 Voluntarily provided information is only the
tip of the iceberg

5. My prediction
• Not all data will be apparantly visible
• But almost all data will be somehow
obtainable
• A grey market for personal data
• The important questions are not if or when
privacy will fail, but what we should do when
it happens

6. What will we do?
• What I DO NOT think will work:
– Let‘s just wait and see, society will be better if we
see that no one is whithout fail
• Concepts
– Information accountability (Weitzner et al.)
– What else?