New to #privacy & #dataprotection? Here are 18 books (in English) you should read to give you a thriving start:
1- Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies by @hartzog. [To understand how #technology - software, hardware, algorithm & design - is not neutral: it can easily manipulate us and negatively affect our #privacy]
2- Re-Engineering Humanity by @BrettFrischmann & @EvanSelinger. [To understand what happens when we get too fascinated by #bigdata, predictive analytics and #ArtificialInteligence and forget the importance of human autonomy and freedom]
3- No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by @ggreenwald. [To realize that #surveillance is everywhere and yes, maybe you have something to hide]
4- Privacy and Freedom by Alan Westin. [To read from the source and learn where the philosophical groundwork for the current debates about #technology and personal freedom came from]
5- Why Privacy Matters by @neilmrichards. [To learn - from Richard's extreme intellectual clarity - how #privacy is about power and fundamental social values]
6- Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life by @HNissenbaum . [To learn that when trying to understand #privacy, contextual norms and flows of information matter]
7- Understanding Privacy by @DanielSolove. [To have a clear and concise framework to understand the multiple phenomena that can be understood as #privacy issues]
8- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by @superwuster. [To get to know the attention economy how the exploitation of or time and focus also impacts our #privacy and identity]
9- The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information by @FrankPasquale. [To learn how organizations benefit from low scrutiny on code and algorithms to exploit our #privacy]
10- Why Privacy Isn't Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability - by @Lawprofaallen. [To learn how privacy is connected to topics such as accountability and how an individual is inserted in his or her community]
11- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by @shoshanazuboff. [To understand what surveillance capitalism and how it is shaping the future - online and offline]
12- Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power by @ariezrawaldman. [To understand how the #tech industry can manipulate how we think about #privacy]
13- Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism by @julie17usc. [To learn what is behind the architecture of today's information flows and how law and power structures interplay]
14- The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age by @daniellecitron. [To understand the challenges of defending privacy in the twenty-first century and how we should be fighting for intimate privacy as a civil right]
15- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by @schneierblog. [To have a good overview of how #privacy and #cybersecurity interplay and how #surveillance is everywhere]
17- The Onlife Manifesto: Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era - by @Floridi. [To have a deep philosophical background on how technology affects us as individuals]
18- Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by @katecrawford. [To understand the social, economic and political dimensions of #ArtificialIntelligence]
19- Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by @Viktor_MS. [To understand how we must adapt, as humans, in a world of perfect remembering in the digital age]
20- Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk by @mireillemoret. [To understand where code and law meet and the theoretical underpinnings of technical aspects involved in privacy and data protection].
21- Your Privacy Is Important to U$! – Restoring Human Dignity in Data-Driven Marketing by Jan Trzaskowski. [To understand how data protection, consumer law and marketing law can work together to help support data subjects in today's digital economy].
I've just left an in-person event with Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI's CEO & Chief Scientist) at Tel Aviv University, and these were my impressions:
- there was a disproportional time talking about the risk of a super powerful and perhaps dangerous Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). It felt like part of a PR move to increase the hype and interest in AI-based applications >>
- there was no mention of OpenAI's role or plans in mitigating existing AI-related problems, such as bias, disinformation, discrimination, deepfakes, non-compliance with data protection rules, etc. It looked like talking about a future AGI was a way to distract from reality>>
🚫 Say NO to sharenting - protect children's privacy
Why? Read this:
If you have kids (or take care of kids), it is a bad idea to document their lives on social media. This behavior is called sharenting, and it can have negative consequences for the child. >>
Most adults don't realize they are sharing their child's pictures online to get the dopamine hit that comes with likes, comments & shares. There is no positive outcome for the child to be seen by the parent's online connections (or strangers). >>
The French Data Protection Authority - @CNIL - has recently published its four-step action plan on AI, and it is the best official document I have seen so far that deals with the intersection between data protection and AI.
The four steps highlighted in this action plan are: >>
1. Understanding the functioning of AI systems and their impacts on people; 2. Allowing and guiding the development of AI that respects personal data; 3. Federal and support innovative players in the AI ecosystem in France and Europe; and >>
We are celebrating by spreading #privacy awareness and sharing below The Privacy Whisperer's top 10 articles, which have discussed topics from children's privacy to Privacy UX:
The TOP 21 Books in Privacy & Data Protection That You Must Read ASAP
Are you new to #privacy & #dataprotection? Looking for book recommendations? Check out my list with the top 21 books in privacy & data protection that you must read ASAP. (The list is not in order of preference)
1- Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies by @hartzog. [To understand how technology - software, hardware, algorithm & design - is not neutral: it can easily manipulate us and negatively affect our privacy].
2- Re-Engineering Humanity by @BrettFrischmann & @EvanSelinger. [To understand what happens when we get too fascinated by big data, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence and forget the importance of human autonomy and freedom].
If you have kids (or take care of kids), it is a bad idea to document their lives on social media. This behavior is called sharenting, and it can have negative consequences for the child.
An uncomfortable thread about children's #privacy:
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Most adults don't realize they are sharing the child's pictures online to get the dopamine hit that comes with likes, comments & shares. There is no positive outcome for the child to be seen by the parent's online connections (or strangers).
There is also the problem of the lack of consent, as children are sometimes too small to understand what is going on, and even when they can understand and consent, they are frequently not consulted by the parent.