Privacy for Profit

Webinar: Privacy today. How to protect personal data while addressing Covid-19?

Data is the main fuel of our digital economies. Our financial transactions, communications, relationships and interactions with governments and businesses generate data that is collected, bought and sold. As the collection and analysis of data becomes more sophisticated and accurate, and as datasets grow to become Big Data, the opportunities ahead seem infinite – but …

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COVID, Cryptography and Certificates

“What if the coronavirus, rather than the needs of commerce and government, drives us to build the digital identity infrastructure that we so desperately need? That is, an infrastructure for the 21st century — digital identity not digitised identity in a privacy-enhancing framework — that is in my opinion far more important to the economy …

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Shelter in Place with Shane Smith & Edward Snowden

Shane chats with former NSA spy and whistleblower Edward Snowden on the rise of authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s all of this data being collected, how are the government so when in in South Korea, I get a text saying oh you met Joe Blow, he might be infected you should, you know sequester …

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Privacy yes, but not at all costs

Surely, if offered a choice between suffering financial hardship and a temporary invasion of privacy and civil liberties, many people would opt for the latter. While some fiercely object to any threat to our privacy, the unremitting popularity of Facebook — even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal — suggests that most people are happy to …

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The Rise of Digitalism: Will the Coronavirus Trigger the End of Liberalism?

“The story of Digitalism explains the future as a struggle for data among companies and (certain) governments trying to collect as much data as possible and citizens trying to protect their data and privacy. Digitalism envisions a world where data is the most important resource in society. It thrives on capitalism and depending on the …

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We must save privacy from privacy itself

“Michele Loi is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. He argues that proponents of privacy should not put privacy above health – else risk sliding into irrelevance. [..] The second risk for privacy is paradoxical: it follows from having “too much respect” for privacy itself. If our concern with privacy prevents urgent political action …

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Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus

In recent years both governments and corporations have been using ever more sophisticated technologies to track, monitor and manipulate people. Yet if we are not careful, the epidemic might nevertheless mark an important watershed in the history of surveillance. Not only because it might normalise the deployment of mass surveillance tools in countries that have …

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