Off the Grid: Is anonymity possible?

Off the grid: Is anonymity possible?Mathias Klang

This is not a rant…

Well, ok, it is a rant! just but not about CCTV, ID Cards, names on train tickets and so much more

Law

Contextual & programmed social

rules

Architecture

Limitations in analogue world

Limitations in digital world

Shift in Technology, law & values

Bottom line: Technology allows us, society encourages & state profits

technology

Digitalization

Connectivity

Storage

Devices

Flickr

2000

2001

2002

2003 2005

2004 2006

Wikipedia

Linkedin

Blog

ger 1

999

Second Life

My Space

Skype

Digg

Facebook

Ning

YouTube

Twitter

Spotify

Google c:a 1998

2008

2007 2009

Farmville

iphone

WikileaksAngry Birds

Theoretical rights become inevitable

practice

Technology changing society, but social rules slow to evolve…

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced… to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes … and serves as a social mediator of relations between people.

Technology makes society

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

Social media & regulation by proxy

Regulation by proxy

Warrentless search

"Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Streetcar Named Desire

What do the people who control what we can do, think?

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 AfricaMark Zuckerberg

It will be very hard for people to watch or consume something that has not in some sense been tailored for them. Eric Schmidt, Google

Personalization is trivialization

Identity & Information junk food.

Let them eat cake

Be prepared for a lot of dead squirrels…

Surveillance, connaisveillence

& autoveillance

Privacy? A little context

proxemics

The Right to Privacy

The intensity and complexity of life, attendant upon advancing civilization, have rendered necessary some retreat from the world…solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress…

Warren and Brandeis The Right to Privacy, 4 Harvard Law Review 193 (1890)

Universal declaration of human rights (1948)

"You have zero privacy anyway, get over it”

Scott McNealy (1999)

“Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity”

Mark Zuckerberg (2010)

Surveillance: A gaze from above

powerHow is surveillance possible?

The stateInformation gathering

Sousveillance: A gaze from below

A bit of a dead end…

connaiveillenceConnaitre: French for acquaintance (and also knowledge)

Social tiesCheck out Small World Theory & Strength of Weak Ties

“friends”How’s that for doubletalk?

Autoveillance: a gaze from within

Exhibitionism?How is autoveillance possible?

myself

We leak information

Compartmentalization

Analog social norms

Protection from the outer gaze

“Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity”

Mark Zuckerberg (2010)

End of privacy?

The Hive-mind

If you have done nothing wrong,

you have nothing to fear

Where is the righteous indignation?

The salami method

Yes, Prime Minister! Series 1, Episode 1, The Grand Design (1986)

We have (theoretical) control over Big Brother

Technology is not inherently democratic

Thank you.

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• Mathias Klang. klang@ituniv.se or @klang67