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Privacy & Ownership of data

Little Sister vs. Big Brother

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Privacy

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What is privacy?

A fundamental human right:

The right to have confidential conversations. The ability to select with whom we communicate. Protection against unwarranted monitoring or

searches.

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Does privacy extend to the IoT?

Who can communicate with devices around you,and about what?

Do you want uninvited to know: When you’re home? If you’re in the shower? What places you visit? Your health status?

Or be able to: Control your vehicle? Turn off your pacemaker?

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Does privacy extend to Social Networks?

Who can access your information?

Do you want uninvited to know: What you think? What you like? Who you know? What you’ve done? Spy on you?

Or be able to: Steal your ideas? Utilize your confidential information?

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E.U. privacy legislation (GDPR)

Concerns any data: Directly related to individuals Indirectly related to individuals

(any level of indirection) About any E.U. citizen (globally). Global citizens (systems in E.U.)

Based on consent & information. Severe fines:

20 MEUR up to 4% of global turnover.

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Ownership

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Who owns the data?

Who is the owner of data? The person/entity generating (inventing) the data? The person/entity storing (controlling) the data? The person about whom the data relates to?

Is it important?

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Legislation

Which law is applicable? Copyright? Trade secrets? Intellectual Property? Privacy?

Enforcing ownership through legal means is difficult.

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Ownership of things

How is normal ownership enforced?

Protection behind lock & key. Access only to trusted parties. Monitoring. Demonstration of ownership.

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Ownership of data

Why treat data differently?

Local storage (decentralization) allows: Protection behind lock & key. Limiting access to trusted parties. Monitoring access. Demonstrating ownership. Enforcing ownership of data.

Added benefit: Intrinsic value of data through access.

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New paradigm – “WWW 3.0”

Privacy & Ownership concerns raise awareness that existing architecture paradigms (centralization in the cloud) not suitable.

Centralized storage has become a risk. Decentralized architecture better protect privacy

& ownership. Advances in standards and communication

technologies eliminate need for centralized processing.

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Security

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Decentralization & security

Decentralization has security implications:

More attack surfaces. But value of each node is small.

Value/Effort ratio small. Easier to protect.

Massive data breaches difficult. You don’t put all your eggs into the same basket.

More resilient. End-to-end encryption.

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Anonymization vs. Strong Identities

Anonymization: Protects whistle blower or dissident

(or criminal or terrorist) Makes security decisions difficult.

Strong identities (pseudonyms): Protect information owners. Allows selective responses.

Both protect privacy, in different ways.

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Peter WaherFounder of Little Sister®, a standards based distributed social network, based on the principles of privacy & information ownership, for organizations, individuals and machines. Peter also works on standardization for the IoT and the Smart City/Society. Author. Smart City Architect. Internet Philosopher.

[email protected]: PeterWaherLinkedIn: http://waher.se/


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