Privacy Flashcards
Security cameras & facial recognition
France - 1:41
UK - 1:13
China - 1:2
Carissa Véliz
the case for ending the data economy
Defences of the surveillance society (Posner)
Protects national security
Good people have nothing to hide
Promotes virtuous behaviour, social welfare
Privacy protections can be paternalistic
Democracies can hold data collectors accountable
Defences of the surveillance society beyond Posner
Product personalisation, convenience, economic growth
‘But I’m nobody’/’needle in a haystack’
It’s already too late
Privacy scandals
Snowden
Equifax
Google maps
Clearview AI
Cambridge analytica
Pegasus
Social credit systems
Privacy branches (2)
- decisional privacy
- informational privacy
Decisional privacy
the freedom to make decision without interference
Informational privacy
the extent to which personal information is inaccessible to others
Privacy
privacy can be increased/decreased by expanding/contracting access to personal information
Five values of privacy
- personal security
- Equality
- Intimacy
- political liberty accountability
- autonomy & dignity
Proposals for protecting privacy
User consent
Anonymisation
Data minimisation
Storage limits
Banning trade in personal data
Contradictions to user consent
- can be coerced
- third parties can’t consent
- Consent dialogues can be unreasonably burdensome
Contradictions to anonymisation
- data can be re-identified
Contradictions to data minimisation
- companies have strong incentive to push the boundaries
