SigInt10: Buying Privacy in Digitized Cities
May 24th, 2010
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Modern city dwellers are being tracked in hundreds of ways. From cell phone surveillance to DNS tracking.
Eleanor illustrates the vast numbers of records generated by Joe Sixpack as he travels from his home to his desk in the office. You have been awake all of 2 hours and at least 30 government agencies and double that amount of commercial agencies have stored information about you.
There are a few problems around surveillance:
- Secondary uses
- Buying and sharing data
- Sunk cost
- Opportunity leads to abuse
- Equality versus aggregation
A typical telco gets about one location request per 10 subscribers, excluding 911, secret service and law enforcement requests.
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