Web Science Institute Privacy and Trust in the

Era of Big Data Analytics

http://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/toward-social-compact-digital-privacy-and-security

Digital Catapult Centre, London, 8th June 2015

Comment on Toward a Social Compact for Digital Privacy and Security, Global Commission on Internet Governance, 15 April 2015,

by Philip Sheldrake, Euler Partners, hi:project.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/number10gov/17905976056Photo: Crown copyright. Photographer: Arron Hoare. BY-NC-ND

"Do we want to allow a means of communication...

that we cannot read?"

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marshall_McLuhan.jpg Public domain.

“The future is already here – it's just not

evenly distributed.”

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fredarmitage/1057613629 by Frédéric Poirot. BY-SA.

technological unevenness

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it will be easy for criminals, voyeurs and foreign spies to intercept too

firms must be banned from producing secure software

search engines must not return pages carrying secure software

https://www.flickr.com/photos/61047655@N00/4976756862 By Johan A., BY-SAhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/david-cameron-internet-surveillance-syria-russia-iran-communicationhttp://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/04/david-cameron-snoopers-charter-will-not-make-us-safer

If we wish to intercept any communication …

100% deep packet inspection required

all computers restricted to state-approved software

physical border security increased to capture all unauthorised technology

all major code repositories must be blocked

existing walled gardens (eg, iOS) required to disallow secure software

virtually all academic security work in UK must cease

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/david-cameron-internet-surveillance-syria-russia-iran-communicationhttp://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/04/david-cameron-snoopers-charter-will-not-make-us-safer

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Mann.jpg By Declan McCullagh, BY-SAhttp://www.eyetap.org/papers/docs/IEEE_ISTAS13_Veillance2_Ali_Mann.pdf http://www.philipsheldrake.com/2014/10/mcveillance-coveillance-and-socioveillance-in-the-context-of-social-business/

http://www.eyetap.org/papers/docs/IEEE_ISTAS13_Veillance2_Ali_Mann.pdf http://www.philipsheldrake.com/2014/10/mcveillance-coveillance-and-socioveillance-in-the-context-of-social-business/

Coveillance Socioveillance

Domain Society at large One’s socios – friends and colleagues, and those one or two steps removed

Equivalence Veillance equivalence Value equivalence – in pursuit of mutual understanding, mutual influence and mutual value

Openness Open; seeking to 'cancel out' privacy concerns

Negotiating data exchange with others’ according to our respective privacy policies

Object The disempowering nature of surveillance

Self-organization

The social compact [for a digital society] will contribute to a new kind of

“collaborative privacy and security.”Every part of the Internet ecosystem

affects every other part.”

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Toward a Social Compact for Digital Privacy and Security,Global Commission on Internet Governance, 15 April 2015,

http://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/toward-social-compact-digital-privacy-and-security

[The compact] is about ensuring that a framework exists where each actor has the responsibility to act not only in their own interests, but also in the interest of

the Internet ecosystem as a whole.

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Toward a Social Compact for Digital Privacy and Security,Global Commission on Internet Governance, 15 April 2015,

http://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/toward-social-compact-digital-privacy-and-security

The focus is rightly on each actor,recognising that society and its Internet are

complex adaptive systems.

The health and resilience of a living system (sustainability) requires actors have the facility

to operate intelligently, and such facility is undermined by poor privacy and security.

http://hi-project.org/2015/03/the-hiproject-and-sustainability/

The hi:project exists to make a more human web, attenuating the challenges and constraints people experience today when interacting digitally so that individual empowerment and collective intelligence are more likely to emerge.

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