My Digital FootPrint

Woody Hartzog (Stanford)  ( personal site )  "Control is the wrong goal for privacy by design, perhaps the wrong goal for data protection in general." But isn't control a central tenet of good privacy? It sure is. But it shouldn't be, the author of "Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" .  While everyone emphasizes "control" of personal data as core to privacy, too much zeal for control dilutes efforts to design information tech correctly. This idealized idea of control is impossible. Control is illusory. It's a shell game.   It's mediated and engineered to produce a particular control. Design is everything. Hear Hartzog's further thoughts in this engaging presentation from Europe's largest privacy thought-leadership event.

Source https://qz.com/1525661/your-digital-identity-has-three-layers-and-you-can-only-protect-one-of-them/amp/ My version of the concept is here  from 2009 I would add to this excellent work by  Katarzyna Szymielewicz  that it is not about me and my data and what analysis of my data tells anyone.  It is about all data, and once anything leaves my head it is shared.  There once was a (useful) set of boundaries and limits to the capability that sharing of data could produce; now there is no boundary and no limit. Get the full version  here

I saw 50 black swans when thinking how data data portability/ mobility will migrate value towards the individual. Now some headlines are set up for click bait; however here is my picture taken in on the North Island New Zealand on lake Rotomahana when out walking and preparing this. Yes each little do it a black swan. Summary : Been thinking about the complex and hidden implications of the personal data portability/ mobility models and data sharing economics. The thinking leads to the possibility of making it far harder for large silo data owners to sell/ share their data due to risk of re-identification; which changes the data economy. Less general silo data being available for sale but increasing demand for ‘quality’ data could mean individual collated data becomes far more valued far quicker than forecast, as the value chain shifts in response to new legislation/ regulation. Early and fast adopting countries will benefit with significant increases in innovation, investment and

Iterating from the generic and classic four : defense, human right, private and contextual;  and the invasion of privacy work  where claims center on: Intrusion of Solitude, Appropriation of Name or Likeness,Public Disclosure of Private Facts and False Light.  Also from Rachel Finn, David Wright and Michael Friedewald work on the  Seven Types of Privacy.  (2013)   Privacy of the person,  Privacy of behaviour and action,  Privacy of communication,  Privacy of data and image,  Privacy of thought and feelings,  Privacy of location and space,  Privacy of association Do we need a better refinement the ideas and definitions, but what are they.....  a few as a starter: Information privacy , which involves the establishment of rules governing the collection and handling of personal data such as credit information and medical records; Bodily privacy , which concerns the protection of people's physical selves against invasive procedures such as drug testing and cavity searches;

We humans set a premium on our own free will and independence ... and yet there's a shadowy influence we might not be considering. As science writer Ed Yong explains in this fascinating, hilarious and disturbing talk, parasites have perfected the art of manipulation to an incredible degree. So are they influencing us? It's more than likely. Love the challenge and what data might tell us that we don't want to know. 

Alexander Duisberg Partner @ Bird Bird, talks to the legal aspects of exploiting big data and lists his top tips for private and   public sector. He talks to : data ownership as a concept [ personally I am not sure anyone can own data, however there are rights and responsibilities] and no jurisdiction has a fully developed concept of data ownership to date. privacy aspect of data  understanding what data you own and how it affects your customers’ privacy. licensing implications when buying or selling data and the issues of making data anonymous. 

Source: Pew Research : Download Most (US) internet users would like to be anonymous online at least occasionally, but many think it is not possible to be completely anonymous online. New findings in a national survey show: 86% of internet users have taken steps online to remove or mask their digital footprints—ranging from clearing cookies to encrypting their email, from avoiding using their name to using virtual networks that mask their internet protocol (IP) address. 55% of internet users have taken steps to avoid observation by specific people, organizations, or the government Love human behaviour, they think that by deleting what it says on their computer that the record has gone……

Source : http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/views_from_the_front_lines_of_the_data_analytics_revolution The link above is to a very good McKinsey article titled “Views from the front lines of the data-analytics revolution” Key points for me 1.     Senior management don’t understand Data irrespective if it is big, small, open, flat, simple or complex 2.     Privacy is not the issue – control, controls, authority and rights are 3.     Talent is always a problem but it never seen as a strategic issue

Privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance shifting beneath our feet, as an industry grows to support monitoring programs. Through private companies, he says, governments are buying technology with the capacity to break into computers, steal documents and monitor activity — without detection. This TED Fellow gives an unsettling look at what's to come.

Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. "Your rights matter,” he says, "because you never know when you're going to need them." Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.

Source: http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/how-to-tell-if-someone-is-lying/ To accurately infer another’s intentions, you need to look for  a set  of cues — gestures that together can more accurately predict or reveal motivation. Here’s how my colleagues and I identified the four key ones (with the help of a robot, of course) and the outcome is that if you express these gestures, you are probably less trustworthy…. 1.        Hand touching 2.        Face touching 3.        Crossing arms 4.        Leaning away So What:   nothing that new, except that it was a robot which was the control, unlike previous studies. As Robots come into play more and more, the person who codes them can become the double bluff.  Trick you with emotions of love and steal your wallet in the process. Don’t believe me then watch – Guy Hoffman: Robots with "soul”

Source and download : GSMA Claim: MOBILE USERS’ PRIVACY FEARS ARE HOLDING BACK THE GROWTH OF MOBILE APPS AND SERVICES However, lots of good data in this report to say many people are worried, however all of us think that the value of mobility and access out weights the privacy concerns. Why can we say this; well all (3.4bn) of us love our mobiles and just get on with it.

Image source: Associated Press Facebook  has changed its policies regarding profiles of users who have passed away. Feb 21 st 2014. A memorialized Facebook profile (when someone has died) was only visible to friends of the deceased, but now Facebook has altered its privacy settings on memorialized profiles so that all functions operate as they did when the user was active on the platform. For example, if a user kept his profile public to anyone on Facebook, that is the way his profile will be even after his passing. " This will allow people to see memorialized profiles in a manner consistent with the deceased person's expectations of privacy," members of Facebook's community team wrote in their blog. " We are respecting the choices a person made in life while giving their extended community of family and friends ongoing visibility to the same content they could always see ." The policy change involves "Look Back" videos, which wer

I read this article and it got me thinking. What happens if we do make Delete the Default. The problem as I see it is that it all becomes too easy to forget history, too easy to have an opinion, too easy to not think and act, too easy to be individual above a citizen.  Accountability is surely valued higher than privacy? What happens when your medical history is deleted, your heart ECG, your previous test results. We value history every day, why do we want to loose it? Big difference is access to stuff you are not allowed to see. Personally because you want to protect your “chat” you cannot take the same principals and expand them to every situation – Delete cannot be the default.

Report in full is here .....However, like our current dependence on fossil fuels, Big Data’s current use of  personal information is unsustainable, increasingly resulting in “pollution” via privacy infringement. At the moment, individuals have little, if any, control over their information’s use and disclosure in Big Data analytics. In addition to a host of privacy concerns, this lack of informational self-determination gives rise to an uneven exchange of the economic value. While the owners of Big Data algorithms profit from their use and disclosure of personal information, the individuals the personal information relates to do not—at least not directly. If not properly addressed, the privacy and economic concerns raised by Big Data threaten to decrease individuals’ willingness to share their personal information3—in effect, cutting off the flow of the “oil” on which the analytic “machinery” of Big Data runs. In order to make the interactions between Big Data and indi

“Any personal information can become sensitive at some point!” The line between public and private has blurred in the past decade, both online and in real life, and Alessandro Acquisti is here to explain what this means and why it matters. In this thought-provoking, slightly chilling talk, he shares details of recent and ongoing research -- including a project that shows how easy it is to match a photograph of a stranger with their sensitive personal information. What motivates you to share your personal information online? Alessandro Acquisti studies the behavioral economics of privacy (and information security) in social networks

Assumption : My Digital Footprint is an original work Protection : there are framework to protect original work from copy Does my original work, which changing moment by moment, afford any automatic copyright?

Pew Internet  have released a new report  on Teens, Social Media and Privacy. Download Summary of Findings Teens share a wide range of information about themselves on social media sites; indeed the sites themselves are designed to encourage the sharing of information and the expansion of networks. However, few teens embrace a fully public approach to social media. Instead, they take an array of steps to restrict and prune their profiles, and their patterns of reputation management on social media vary greatly according to their gender and network size. These are among the key findings from a new report based on a survey of 802 teens that examines teens’ privacy management on social media sites: ·          Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they did in the past. For the five different types of personal information that we measured in both 2006 and 2012, each is significantly more likely to be shared by teen social media use

Source: http://www.stephaniekrawinkler.com/book-trust-choice/ Amazon link and   Extract Trust is a universal but culture-bound phenomenon and a critical success factor in corporate life. The author provides a compilation of anthropological theoretical threads on trust. She conducted a long-time ethnography of a company and describes what trust is, how it is established and maintained in this particular organization, and addresses the question whether it can be regained when lost. This elaborated case proves that the anthropological methods can be helpful in researching this abstract topic. An additional chapter outlines and further discusses the used research methods. This book is for students, scholars, and for managers of companies that are interested in trust theory and research as well as business anthropology. Dr. Stephanie A. Krawinkler, is a social and cultural anthropologist, author, and lecturer at the University of Vienna. She has been conducting busin

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