Tag: privacy
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This One Weird Trick Tells Us Everything About You: In Print!
I almost forgot to share photos of the gorgeous printed Smashing Magazine! Getting all this into 2000 words was a challenge, but I’m happy with the result.
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Smashing TV Livestream: Towards Ethics & Privacy By Default
Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be on a panel with the other folks who contributed to the new Smashing print magazine on Ethics and Privacy. You can watch it live on YouTube (be aware that Google is tracking you!) at 1pm GMT / 2pm Irish time / 3pm Barcelona time.
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This One Weird Trick Tells Us Everything About You
I wrote a little essay for Smashing Print #1: Ethics & Privacy titled ‘This One Weird Trick Tells Us Everything About You.’
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The Devastating Consequences of Being Poor in the Digital Age
Written by Mary Madden on The New York Times.
“The poor experience these two extremes — hypervisibility and invisibility — while often lacking the agency or resources to challenge unfair outcomes. For instance, they may be unfairly targeted by predictive policing tools designed with biased training data or unfairly excluded from hiring algorithms that scour social media networks to make determinations about potential candidates. In this increasingly complex ecosystem of “networked privacy harms,” one-size-fits-all privacy solutions will not serve all communities equally. Efforts to create a more ethical technology sector must take the unique experiences of vulnerable and marginalized users into account.”
Read ‘The Devastating Consequences of Being Poor in the Digital Age’ on the The New York Times site.
Tagged with: privacy, surveillance, discrimination.
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That mental health app might share your data without telling you
Written by Rachel Becker on The Verge.
“33 of the 36 apps shared information that could give advertisers or data analytics companies insights into people’s digital behavior. And a few shared very sensitive information, like health diary entries, self reports about substance use, and usernames.”
“Potentially advertisers could use this to compromise someone’s privacy and sway their treatment decisions…”
Read ‘That mental health app might share your data without telling you’ on the The Verge site.
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Why You Can No Longer Get Lost in the Crowd
Written by Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger on New York Times.
“Obscurity bridges this privacy gap with the idea that the parts of our lives that are hard or unlikely to be found or understood are relatively safe. It is a combination of the privacy you have in public and the privacy you have in groups. Obscurity is a barrier that can shield you from government, corporate and social snoops. And until lawmakers, corporate leaders and citizens embrace obscurity and move to protect it, your freedom and opportunities to flourish will be in jeopardy.”
Read ‘Why You Can No Longer Get Lost in the Crowd’ on the New York Times site.
Tagged with: obscurity, privacy, right to be forgotten.
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Are you serious Mr Zuckerberg?
Written by Privacy International staff on Privacy International.
“Facebook is seeking yet again to apportion blame for its failures elsewhere - this time on governments for failing to regulate. Yet Facebook continually obstructs regulatory reform with its powerful lobbying capabilities, appeals against regulatory judgments and then investigates its critics.”
Read ‘Are you serious Mr Zuckerberg?’ on the Privacy International site.
Tagged with: facebook, regulation, privacy.
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Privacy’s not an abstraction
Written by Chris Gilliard on Fast Company.
“Privacy for marginalized populations has never been, and will never be an abstract. Being surveilled, whether by private actors, or the state, is often the gateway to very tangible harms–violence in the form of police brutality, incarceration, or deportation. And there can be more subliminal, insidious impacts, too.”
“The idea that surveillance would be used as an assignment on those with no options for consent speaks to how broken our ideas about consent have become, trivializing what to many people is a life and death matter of their lived existence.”
Read ‘Privacy’s not an abstraction’ on the Fast Company site.
Tagged with: privacy, consent, chilling effects.
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State websites are aiding a disgraceful silent surveillance
Written by Karlin Lillington on Irish Times.
“Of ‘special concern’ is that, by cross-referencing such data to the vast trove of personally-identifying information Google also holds from services like Gmail, Android apps, and Search, Google can ‘easily associate web activity with the identities of real people’, the report warns.”
Read ‘State websites are aiding a disgraceful silent surveillance’ on the Irish Times site.
Tagged with: surveillance capitalism, public sector, privacy.
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Tech is not neutral and we need to do better
The best bookmarks I saved in Week 12, 2019.
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