Jan 2015

Networked Privacy in the Age of Surveillance, Sousveillance, Coveillance

pewinternet.org

Personal privacy in the networked age is limited by three dimensions of “veillance.” They shape people’s behavior and their anxieties about the future of privacy. At Harvard University’s symposium “Privacy in a Networked World,” Lee […]
2015

HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites

eff.org

Commercial tracking of web users is a massive problem. Even more so, when people browse seemingly trustworthy websites (as the government’s official sites, in this case) and those leak personal information – here potentially revealing something about […]
2015

Privacy By Design

privacybydesign.ca

This website has extensive background and material on Ann Cavoukian’s “Privacy by Design” framework from the 1990s:
Privacy by Design is a framework that was developed by the former Information and Privacy Commissioner of […]
2015

The digital freedom risk: too fragile an acknowledgment

opendemocracy.net

The late Ulrich Beck (✝2015-01-01), father of the concept of the “risk society”, on digital freedom:
The violation of our freedom does not hurt. We neither feel it, nor do we suffer a disease, a flood, a lack of opportunities to […]
2015

Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty

meyerweb.com

A spot-on example of scenarios not taken into account in design inadvertently turning something intended to be “joyful” into something “awful”: Eric Meyer really did not want to be reminded of his past year, but still faced Facebook […]
2015