Private Lives?
The social value of privacy
This Demos collection will highlight new thinking about privacy in the UK, and seek to address the future challenges of the privacy agenda in an increasingly open society.
- Global privacy standards? Data and information about us, for reasons fair, foul or just opaque, travels across nations and continents as an almost necessary by-product of whatever it is that we call the information society. But how can we be sure about what that means for who sees that personal information, and how it is used?Google's Peter Fleischer is talking about this today in a speech at a UNESCO conference on ethics and human rights in the information society. He's arguing that we should develop some global... continue reading on 14th September 2007 Comments (1)
- Privacy on social networks Just read a story about Oxford University using Facebook to find evidence from their students' photos of banned post-exam partying. It follows lots of stories about employers using infomration they find on social network sites to inform their recrutiment decisions, or monitor their staff.One of Facebook's selling points is that users can set levels of privacy, limiting access to photos and the other snippets of information from their profiles to a specific group or groups. Is it as... continue reading on 17th July 2007 Comments (1)
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We're holding an event with Google next Thursday evening at their offices in Victoria. We'll be talking about what's happening to privacy online.
The discussion should touch on some really timely challenges and opportunities. As we do more and more online, large amounts of information about us is created and captured. Much of that underpins the spirit of coolaboration and openness of online life. But what are the implications for the rich values that our sense of privacy embodies? continue reading on 29th June 2007 - Rate my privacy A really useful report from Privacy International - rankings of the major internet companies based on an assessment of their attitudes and practices with regard to their users privacy.It gets its hands dirty at the point where the sharing of information online - and the promises we hear about collaboration and involvement - strike against the protection of information about us and our habits. Great to see policy and practice laid out like this. continue reading on 11th June 2007