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Technology Review: Privacy Requires Security, Not Abstinence

Article by Simson Garfinkel on "Protecting an inalienable right in the age of Facebook," i.e., privacy.

Privacy matters, as Garfinkel eloquently argues:
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Privacy matters. Data privacy protects us from electronic crimes of opportunity--identity theft, stalking, even little crimes like spam. Privacy gives us the right to meet and speak confidentially with others--a right that's crucial for democracy, which requires places for political ideas to grow and mature. Absolute privacy, also known as solitude, gives us to space to grow as individuals. Who could learn to write, draw, or otherwise create if every action, step, and misstep were captured, immortalized, and evaluated? And the ability to conduct transactions in privacy protects us from both legal and illegal discrimination.
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But Garfinkel argues that it's not the case that merely "opting out" of "some aspects of modern society" (i.e., abstinence) should be the way to secure it. You should have a right to privacy, and still be able to participate in online activity or electronic/ digital transactions.
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Now, however, abstinence no longer guarantees privacy.
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In this environment, the real problem is not that your information is out there; it's that it's not protected from misuse. In other words, privacy problems are increasingly the result of poor security practices.
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Tags: privacy, security, online_privacy, simson_garfinkel on 2009-06-30 -All Annotations (37) -About

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The Mobile City - TV glasses - watching video in private

Mobile City asks all the right questions (in this case, about video glasses, a visual sort of iPod or Walkman device). Eg.: "...it’s another addition to the array of media to shield off private media consumption in public places. Just like the Walkman/iPod earbuds privatized personal music listening, these glasses may do something similar for watching video/TV. The same ol’ question arises again: what does this mean for publicness of places?"

What does it mean for the publicness of places? Or, alternately, what does it mean for polite anonymity, for protective anonymity? At what point does privacy become just a big too ...aggressive and impolite for civic intercourse?

Tags: anonymity, cities, privacy, public_space, technology on 2008-01-23 -All Annotations (0) -About

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seven for 2007 | varnelis.net

I've had this open in a browser tab for days, wanting to bookmark it, but hesitating because I found it impossible to describe, tag, or in any way categorize. So, let's just say it's "wow" and one of the best recaps-cum-predictions amongst the blogs. Read it.

Tags: architecture, cities, cloud_computing, creatives, economics, ideas, predictions, privacy, reference, wow on 2008-01-09 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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