Society vs Privacy: the impossible dilemma

Society vs Privacy: the impossible dilemma Mathias Klang

Three layers of society

Law

Contextual & programmed social

rules

Architecture

Norms from above

Contextual & programmed social

rules

privacy(from Latin: privatus "separated from the rest, deprived of something, esp. office, participation in the government", from privo "to deprive") is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. (Wikipedia)

.Privacy.integrity.Identity.anonymity.pseudonymity.

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)

"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)

Data/information

Data

Spatial

Game changer: storage

Production costs

Musikhistoria är olagrad för 1857

Betydelse?

Mike WelschWeb 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

Game changer: communication

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

Technology changing society, but social rules slow to evolve…

Surveillance: gaze from above

powerHow is surveillance possible?

The stateInformation gathering

Sousveillance: A gaze from below

Social ties How is sousveillance possible?

“friends”

Autoveillance: a gaze from within

Exhibitionism? How is autoveillance possible?

We used to leak information

Compartmentalization

Analog social norms

Protection from the outer gaze

Today we have a mix of sur, sous & autoveillance. regulation mainly focuses on surveillance.

End of privacy?

The Hive-mind

If you have done nothing wrong,

you have nothing to fear

We have (theoretical) control over Big Brother

If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold

personalization

The internet is shows us what it thinks that we want to see – not what we need to see Eli Pariser

Identity & Information junk food.

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

Technology is not inherently democratic

Law without infrastructure

Problem 1: We are stupid

Problem 2: We don’t know what we don’t know

Problem 3: difference between who I want to be & who I am…

Problem 4: The keepers of algorithms know this

There have always been gatekeepers.

We have (theoretical) control over Big Brother

A Squirrel Dying In Your Front Yard May Be More Relevant To

Your Interests Right Now Than People

Dying In AfricaMark Zuckerberg

Thank you.

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