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Privacy: why should we be concerned? Mathias Klang @klang67
Privatus? Complex term but “separated from the rest”
Privacy is experienced. Introvert v extrovert
Historically technology is seen as damaging privacy – but what if
togetherness is the norm?
a historical glance.
Are we alone together or together alone?
The right to privacy (1890)
Killer app 1890: Hollerith Tabulating Machine
The ability to countGovernment control
Privacy revival 1970s
Killer app 1970
The ability to analyze and compareCorporate control
Data protection Directive (1995)
Killer apps 1995: Browser wars
Count, analyze, compare & communicateAvailability of data through digitalization & web
Why lawmakers secretly “dislike” technology?
Douglas Adams
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Technology & control
Law
Contextual & programmed social
rules
ArchitectureControl in
analogue world
Control in digital world
Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)
Privacy & technology
We leak information
Compartmentalization strategy
Surveillance: the Orwellian gaze from above
A Huxleyian shift
Ending the communications monopoly
Blog
ger 1
999
Goo
gle
1999
End of communications monopoly
Normalizing the abnormal
Sousveillance: A gaze from below
“friends” ensure: there is no opt-out
Autoveillance: a gaze from within
Performance lifestyle
My amazing coffee
Silly maybe, but harmful?
Village vs global village
Nothing new?
Jessica Rabbit: I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
What do the people who control what we can do, think?
The Hive-mind
If you have done nothing wrong,
you have nothing to fear
The effect of banal information
What will they let us think?
A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa
Mark Zuckerberg
Seduced by technology, locked by licenses & killed by a lack of social responsibility
Information obesity, Personalization & mind control
Privacy will not be die suddenly of a massive leak. It’s slowly fading by analysis of public data…
Autonomy: the freedom to lose our privacy
A final problem: Outing the young
There have always been gatekeepers.
State oppression can be observed and therefore controlled. Our choices require self control
THANKS!
Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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