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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
Blog
ger 1
999
Second Life
My Space
Skype
Digg
Ning
YouTube
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.
Information• All images from www.flickr.com (unless specifically stated)
• Image & licensing info in the notes section of slides
• Presentation licensed: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
• The presentation can be downloaded from: www.slideshare.net/klang
• More information about me: www.techrisk.se & www.digital-rights.net
• Mathias Klang. [email protected] or @klang67
