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Dec 28 • 23 tweets • 12 min read
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].

amazon.com/Privacys-Bluep…
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].

amazon.com/Re-Engineering…
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].

amazon.com/No-Place-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].

amazon.com/Privacy-Freedo…
5- Why Privacy Matters by @neilmrichards. [To learn - from Richard's extreme intellectual clarity - how privacy is about power and fundamental social values].

amazon.com/Why-Privacy-Ma…
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].

amazon.com/Privacy-Contex…
7- Understanding Privacy by @DanielSolove. [To have a clear and concise framework to understand the multiple phenomena that can be described as privacy].

amazon.com/Understanding-…
8- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by @superwuster. [To get to know the attention economy and how the exploitation of our time and focus also impacts our privacy and identity].

amazon.com/Attention-Merc…
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].

amazon.com/Black-Box-Soci…
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].

amazon.com/Why-Privacy-Is…
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 is and how it is shaping the future - online and offline].

amazon.com/Age-Surveillan…
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].

amazon.com/Industry-Unbou…
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].

amazon.com/Between-Truth-…
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].

amazon.com/Fight-Privacy-…
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].

amazon.com/Data-Goliath-B…
16- Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace by @lessig. [To learn the foundations of how code, social norms, and regulation interplay].

amazon.com/Code-Other-Cyb…
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].

amazon.com/Onlife-Manifes…
18- Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by @katecrawford. [To understand the social, economic, and political dimensions of artificial intelligence].

amazon.com/Atlas-AI-Plane…
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].

amazon.com/Delete-Virtue-…
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].

amazon.com/Law-Computer-S…
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].

extuto.com/?fbclid=IwAR0E…
Check out my newsletter article "The TOP 21 Books in Privacy & Data Protection That You Must Read ASAP": theprivacywhisperer.com/p/the-top-21-b….

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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:

(1/10)
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).

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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.

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Oct 27
"Why Certain Technologies Are Creepy - And What Engineers Can Do About It" - This week's edition of The Privacy Whisperer is out, and it's about #privacy and creepy #technologies: theprivacywhisperer.com/p/why-certain-…

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Technology is immensely powerful, it can bring so many positive transformations. However, humans must always be the focus. It does not matter how innovative a certain technology is, there should always be adequate constraints and mechanisms to support humans & prevent harm.
(2/8)
I show how AirTags used by abusive ex-partners and stalkers, deepfakes in non-consensual pornography, and automated gender recognition software are forms of creepy technologies that can be used to oppress and harm people.

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Aug 10
#Amazon got access to the interior of your home without you even knowing it. They can now share it with whoever they want - incl. the police. #Privacy (thread 1/9)
Amazon acquired #iRobot, the company that makes #Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, for $1.7B. It can now have richer data about the interior of your home and share with whoever they see fit, also with the police, even if you've never consented to it (2/9)
Amazon is also the owner of:
📹#Ring: so it can have video from your home
📢#Alexa: so it can have audio from your home
🏠 Numerous #smarthome appliances: so that it can have detailed and integrated data from your routine and your needs (3/9)
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Aug 9
🔥What are the 9 #GDPR principles and why they matter for you:
1. Lawfulness (Art. 5.1.a): your personal data can only be collected, processed or used according to what the law establishes. For example, Art. 6.1 specifies six situations in which your data can be processed lawfully, consent is one of them.
2. Fairness (Art. 5.1.a): tricky principle, as there is no express indication of its meaning in the GDPR. The @ICOnews says that it means that your data cannot be processed in a way that is unduly detrimental, unexpected or misleading to you. I am working on that in my PhD :)
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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]

amazon.com/Privacys-Bluep…
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]

amazon.com/Re-Engineering…
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Jul 31
These are the 23 reasons why #TikTok is problematic in terms of #manipulation, #addiction and #privacy & why #children and #teenagers should be kept away from it:

(for those interested: the full article about the topic, with all relevant links: linkedin.com/pulse/i-tiktok…)
1- Reduced space for #autonomy and #choice; videos are pushed to the user since 1st use. In a web that respects human dignity, people - especially #children and #teenagers - should get used to choose and think about what they want to be exposed to
2- Increased potential of #manipulation and #exposure of younger and more impressionable audiences, as the content will be pushed to them and they will be hooked by age-inappropriate content (and be recommended more content like this)
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