Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization
What is Privacy? That's the Wrong Question
A Case Against the Peeping Tom Theory of Privacy
A Visual Guide to Practical Data De-Identification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6JwgrNUanc
<aside> 💡 Solove’s “A Taxonomy of Privacy” reminded me of last week’s “How Data Can Be Used Against People” (Kröger, Miceli, Müller). Both readings create an understandable framework of data privacy by defining and distinguishing different forms of privacy violations, but for slightly different purposes. Kröger, Miceli, and Müller write a general classification of how data can be used against people, while Solove writes for the “future development of the field of privacy law”. The contemporary tech industry has been the wild wild West where white cis hetero men have been moving fast and breaking things for far too long without enough regulatory oversight. It’s more than time for the public policy and law domains to catch up and better understand the risks and harms that tech can bring.
One of the quotes that I found most interesting was from Hartzog’s reading where he writes, “He [Solov] presciently argued that the modern privacy predicament involving industry’s large-scale data processing efforts is more akin to Josef K’s byzantine bureaucratic nightmare described by Frank Kafka in The Trial than the dystopian universal surveillance described by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four.” Whereas 1984 has a sense of a surveillance state that is elegantly organized and well-oiled, it seems like the institutions of power in The Trial are instead overly complicated yet still dangerous to its people. I would argue that the tech industry can be both too complex and too invasive.
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