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.
- Your honour, it's about those Facebook photos of you at 20 We need to monitor the attitudes of users - the 'self-advertisers' - in more depth to see if they are truly more open and less private than previous generations. The initial evidence is that they still have an innate sense of privacy. If so, social networking needs to be governed by the same body of law, custom and practice that is developing to protect privacy elsewhere. The key elements would be to increase media literacy, enable the withdrawal of consent and ensure that obsolete data can be effectively deleted. 20th May 2007 | The Observer
- Whose privacy is it anyway? The vision of an Orwellian society fails to make an impression on the current generation. 28th March 2007 | Guardian Online: Comment is free
- Google will purge some user data to better protect privacy Google will purge some user data to better protect privacy 15th March 2007
- Privacy and Data Sharing Strategy Unit paper on data-sharing in public services and privacy 8th February 2007
- CST: Report, Better use of personal information Report from Council for Science and Technology (from 2005) on how government could better make use of personal information. 8th February 2007
- David Walker on why we should embrace data sharing | Public manager | SocietyGuardian.co.uk David Walker on why we should embrace data sharing | Public manager | SocietyGuardian.co.uk 1st February 2007
- DATA PROTECTION DAY default DATA PROTECTION DAY default 29th January 2007
- Privacy International Privacy International 11th January 2007