🧠 Helen Nissenbaum sat down with Tech Policy Press and it's worth a listen:
🔸Privacy ≠ secrecy. It’s about contextual integrity
🔸Contextual integrity: Info should only flow in ways that fit the norms of the setting it’s in
🔸Digital surveillance is no longer theoretical, it’s omnipresent
🔸Data obfuscation isn’t sabotage—it’s self-defense
Privacy isn't just about protecting user data. It’s about balancing power between companies and users.
A gentle reminder for 7th annual PrivaCI Symposium from 19-20 May 2025, as the deadline for registering intent/abstract on #contextualintegrity is quickly approaching (7 February, with submissions due 14 February) ⌛️
The Symposium is organised for the first time in Europe (Brussels) 🇪🇺 hosted by imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and @BrusselsPrivacyHub, with the support of School of Social Sciences Hasselt University, @CPDPconferences and SOLID ✨
Here are a couple of ideas that I think may be worth re-surfacing:
- Helen Nissenbaum's concept of Privacy as #ContextualIntegrity
- danah boyd (@zephoria)'s description of social network sites as #NetworkedPublics and particularly the idea of "publics" (plural) in contrast to a binary conception of privacy
What should we call this resurfacing of theory and ideas?
I'm envisioning a kind of mini #SocialRenaissance.
Does that resonate with anyone else?
Confident Security
Jo Pierson
Mike English 💾
Martin Degeling