Dev:Data Protection
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6 facets of data privacy
As mentioned by Craig in the humanitarian ICT post at [[1]]
- financial - social - infrastructural - instructional - individual - natural
Scenarios
ISSUE: privacy
POSE: "you have no privacy, get over it" - Scott
McNealy
ARG: Homeland Security, IRS, HMOs, insurance knows
ALL
POSE: "as long as you control when to give it up,
fine"
ARG: extensive profile revealed only selectively
and by
explicit request of the person profiled is
private
and convenient ("Passport" model)
POSE: once you've lost it, it's lost
ARG: not true, post-facto obscuring and claims of
being
out of date are effective ways to denature a
"fact"
ISSUE: trolls
POSE: "sticks and stones will break my bones,
but..."
ARG: who cares what anyone SAYS if you can create
quick
trusting relationships and DO things with
others -
the ability to twist data into a story is
overrated
POSE: why collect every word you ever said or that
was
said to you? only the published works under
your
own name should matter, the rest must be
erasable
ISSUE: collecting
POSE: a very exclusive club could motivate all this
data
being collected, and it could be done in one
day a
year - including tests or validating
credentials
ARG: this is about as extensive as a Master's
thesis in
yourself - if you can list it, you know
yourself -
people could get credit for doing it for each
other
POSE: data from OTHERS that is ABOUT you is more
accurate
ARG: not necessarily, but, it can be reliability
tested,
with the same data gathered from more than 1
source
if one is willing to do something like a PhD's
oral
exam worth of effort with subject
cross-examination
ISSUE: impersonation / identity theft
POSE: it is more difficult the more data is on the
person
ARG: if only partial identities are revealed and
never
combined, and combined with elements of others
to
make a vast number of false identities that
will be
instantly spotted, the risk of impersonation
drops
with no great increase in overall privacy risk
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