New Data, Privacy and all that Stuff

Mark Elliot School of Social Sciences University of Manchester

mark.elliot@manchester.ac.uk

Acknowledgements

• Kingsley Purdam (Manchester)

• Elaine Mackey (Manchester)

• Kieron O’Hara (Southampton)

• Sander Duivestein (Sogeti)

Opportunities

• Big data and commercially owned data

• Strong and enriched traditional data sources: cohort studies, surveys combining attitude and physiological data.

Our Data Our Selves

To Close

• Human beings are on a historical path to merge with their artefacts.

• Anonymisation/confidentiality will be irrelevant in 15-20 years.

But:

• The decisions we make today about todays data environment will have huge enormous for the shape society we are living in in 25 years time.

• Elliot, M., Mackey, E. and Purdam K. (2013) Data Horizons – New Forms of Data for Social Research. ESRC – down load from the CMIST web site (reports).

• Purdam K. and Elliot M. (2015) ‘The Changing Social Data Landscape’ in Halfpenny, P. and Procter, R. (eds.) Innovation in Digital Research Methods. Sage.

• Elliot, M. and Mackey, E. (2014) ‘The Social Data Environment’ in O’Hara, K., David, S.L., de Roure, D. Nguyen, C. M-H. (eds) Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 253-263