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 [[Privacy]] is a very loosely defined word and very much it depends on both what you mean by it and what a person expects, depending on context. My context for privacy when I'm out on the street or on a Friday evening in the entertainment district is a lot different than if I'm going to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in the basement of a church. My expectations in the context are radically different. That hasn't yet translated effectively into the digital realm where we speaking more specifically, usually about personally identifiable information about a person and how it gets collected, used, and disclosed by various entities, and in that space I think the context really should be defined by my personal approach to explaining privacy to people, which is a person has privacy when they're able to determine what information they share about themselves, with whom, and under what terms. And when you phrase it like that, that becomes an "operationalizable" way to approach your functional and non-functional requirements for designing a system that's going to process personal information.
-The best way to describe privacy is by the reactions against data released to the public. Lately we're seeing a growing "Privacy First" movement that recognizes that so many of America's ills start with the country's poor privacy protections (Congress last updated consumer privacy law in 1988, when they banned video-store clerks from telling newspapers which VHS cassettes you rented as a result of the data released during the Clarence Thomas hearings). Whether you're worried about Big Tech [[Brainwashing]], AI deepfake porn, red state Attorneys General following teens into abortion clinics, or cops rounding up the identities of protesters with "reverse-warrants" served on Google. But the first legal definition of privacy was the Warren and Brandeis report<ref name="Warren" /> published after some newspaper gossip column reporting in Boston about a Warren relative.<ref>Urofsky, ''Louis Brandeis, a Life''</ref> It seems that most attempts to control privacy have come as a reaction to an unflattering (or dangerous) exposure of "private" information.
+The best way to describe privacy is by the reactions against data released to the public. Lately we're seeing a growing "Privacy First" movement that recognizes that so many of America's ills start with the country's poor privacy protections (Congress last updated consumer privacy law in 1988, when they banned video-store clerks from telling newspapers which VHS cassettes you rented as a result of the data released during the Clarence Thomas hearings). Whether you're worried about Big Tech [[Brainwashing]], AI deepfake porn, red state Attorneys General following teens into abortion clinics, or cops rounding up the identities of protesters with "reverse-warrants" served on Google. But the first legal definition of privacy was the Warren and Brandeis report<ref name="Warren" /> published after some newspaper gossip column reporting in Boston about a Warren relative.<ref>Melvin Urofsky, ''Louis D. Brandeis, a Life'' 2012 ISBN ‏978-0805211955</ref> It seems that most attempts to control privacy have come as a reaction to an unflattering (or dangerous) exposure of "private" information.
 * A great source for what users understand and expect is available from the Pew Research Center.<ref>Brooke Auxier +4, ''Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information'' Pew Research Center 2019-11-15 https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information/</ref>

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 [[Privacy]] is a very loosely defined word and very much it depends on both what you mean by it and what a person expects, depending on context. My context for privacy when I'm out on the street or on a Friday evening in the entertainment district is a lot different than if I'm going to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in the basement of a church. My expectations in the context are radically different. That hasn't yet translated effectively into the digital realm where we speaking more specifically, usually about personally identifiable information about a person and how it gets collected, used, and disclosed by various entities, and in that space I think the context really should be defined by my personal approach to explaining privacy to people, which is a person has privacy when they're able to determine what information they share about themselves, with whom, and under what terms. And when you phrase it like that, that becomes an "operationalizable" way to approach your functional and non-functional requirements for designing a system that's going to process personal information.
-The best way to describe privacy is by the reactions against data released to the public. Lately we're seeing a growing "Privacy First" movement that recognizes that so many of America's ills start with the country's poor privacy protections (Congress last updated consumer privacy law in 1988, when they banned video-store clerks from telling newspapers which VHS cassettes you rented as a result of the data released during the Clarence Thomas hearings). Whether you're worried about Big Tech [[Brainwashing]], AI deepfake porn, red state Attorneys General following teens into abortion clinics, or cops rounding up the identities of protesters with "reverse-warrants" served on Google. But the first legal definition of privacy was the Warren and Brandeis report<ref name="Warren" /> published after some newspaper gossip column reporting in Boston about a Brandeis relative. It seems that most attempts to control privacy have come as a reaction to an unflattering (or dangerous) exposure of "private" information.
+The best way to describe privacy is by the reactions against data released to the public. Lately we're seeing a growing "Privacy First" movement that recognizes that so many of America's ills start with the country's poor privacy protections (Congress last updated consumer privacy law in 1988, when they banned video-store clerks from telling newspapers which VHS cassettes you rented as a result of the data released during the Clarence Thomas hearings). Whether you're worried about Big Tech [[Brainwashing]], AI deepfake porn, red state Attorneys General following teens into abortion clinics, or cops rounding up the identities of protesters with "reverse-warrants" served on Google. But the first legal definition of privacy was the Warren and Brandeis report<ref name="Warren" /> published after some newspaper gossip column reporting in Boston about a Warren relative.<ref>Urofsky, ''Louis Brandeis, a Life''</ref> It seems that most attempts to control privacy have come as a reaction to an unflattering (or dangerous) exposure of "private" information.
-* The best source for what users understand and expect is available from the Pew Research Center.<ref>Brooke Auxier +4, ''Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information'' Pew Research Center 2019-11-15 https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information/</ref>
+* A great source for what users understand and expect is available from the Pew Research Center.<ref>Brooke Auxier +4, ''Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information'' Pew Research Center 2019-11-15 https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information/</ref>
 * Some have argued that the current view of online privacy is actually a harmful concept itself that has move away from the concept of the right to let alone.<ref>Elisha Lim +8, ''Abolish Privacy'' (2023) https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13671/11963</ref> They make the following three arguments:
 # Online privacy is not social justice.

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 ===Government Awareness===
 Perhaps the earliest attention to privacy in the US Federal government came during Congressional hearings on a giant US national  data center proposal. But on the last day of hearing 1966-07-20 Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation<ref>Paul Baran and the Origins of the Internet https://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html</ref> told the committee that while the Nations data center could destroy [[Privacy]] as we know, but that it did not make the slightest bit of difference if the data center were built, Data collection didn't require a building as the data was certain to get linked up anyway. It didn't matter whether the data was put into a single data base or spread around the country, the result is the same. We cannot stop technology but we can provide and safeguards if we take action now, before it is too late. If the government does set up regulation now we will be left with a world where anyone can collect and use the data for any purpose at all.<ref name=lepore /> The subcommittee was adjourned and no action was taken.
 ===Identifiers and Privacy===

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 # [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)] states in article 12 - "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."
 # While the UDHR has no legal basis in most countries, it is followed at one level or another in nearly all of them.
 ====GDPR grants these rights====
 [https://www.wrighthassall.co.uk/knowledge/legal-articles/2017/11/21/gdpr-individuals-rights/ One legal firm] was bold enough to describe the GDPR in the following bullet points. What they left out was the dozens of exclusions which means that the GDPR only applies to organizations that are either (1) based in the US, or (2) unwilling to pay $500/hour for a lawyer to find an exclusion that apples to them. See the wiki page [[GDPR is a scam]] for more details.

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 [[Privacy]] is a very loosely defined word and very much it depends on both what you mean by it and what a person expects, depending on context. My context for privacy when I'm out on the street or on a Friday evening in the entertainment district is a lot different than if I'm going to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in the basement of a church. My expectations in the context are radically different. That hasn't yet translated effectively into the digital realm where we speaking more specifically, usually about personally identifiable information about a person and how it gets collected, used, and disclosed by various entities, and in that space I think the context really should be defined by my personal approach to explaining privacy to people, which is a person has privacy when they're able to determine what information they share about themselves, with whom, and under what terms. And when you phrase it like that, that becomes an "operationalizable" way to approach your functional and non-functional requirements for designing a system that's going to process personal information.
-The best way to describe privacy is by the reactions against data released to the public. Lately we're seeing a growing "Privacy First" movement that recognizes that so many of America's ills start with the country's poor privacy protections (Congress last updated consumer privacy law in 1988, when they banned video-store clerks from telling newspapers which VHS cassettes you rented as a result of the data released during the Clarence Thomas hearings). Whether you're worried about Big Tech brainwashing, AI deepfake porn, red state Attorneys General following teens into abortion clinics, or cops rounding up the identities of protesters with "reverse-warrants" served on Google. But the first legal definition of privacy was the Warren and Brandeis report<ref name="Warren" /> published after some newspaper gossip column reporting in Boston about a Brandeis relative. It seems that most attempts to control privacy have come as a reaction to an unflattering (or dangerous) exposure of "private" information.
+The best way to describe privacy is by the reactions against data released to the public. Lately we're seeing a growing "Privacy First" movement that recognizes that so many of America's ills start with the country's poor privacy protections (Congress last updated consumer privacy law in 1988, when they banned video-store clerks from telling newspapers which VHS cassettes you rented as a result of the data released during the Clarence Thomas hearings). Whether you're worried about Big Tech [[Brainwashing]], AI deepfake porn, red state Attorneys General following teens into abortion clinics, or cops rounding up the identities of protesters with "reverse-warrants" served on Google. But the first legal definition of privacy was the Warren and Brandeis report<ref name="Warren" /> published after some newspaper gossip column reporting in Boston about a Brandeis relative. It seems that most attempts to control privacy have come as a reaction to an unflattering (or dangerous) exposure of "private" information.
 * The best source for what users understand and expect is available from the Pew Research Center.<ref>Brooke Auxier +4, ''Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information'' Pew Research Center 2019-11-15 https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information/</ref>

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 ===The Alignment Problem===
 Alignment of human needs with technological solutions has not been good.<ref>Brian Christian, ''The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values''  2020-10-06 ISBN 978-0393635829</ref> Privacy preserving data ideas do not translate into hard mathematical constructs. Cynthia thought that when people were asking for privacy they were actually worried about about somebody using their data in the wrong way. It wasn't so much about hiding the data at all costs, but  preventing harm from the way that data was used. The conversation has sifted from privacy to fairness. Fairness through blindness does not work. All personal data provides information that can be used to categorize the individual, in other words, to discriminate.
 ===User and Web Site Acceptance for Privacy Seals===

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	The best way to describe privacy is by the reactions against data released to the public. Lately we're seeing a growing "Privacy First" movement that recognizes that so many of America's ills start with the country's poor privacy protections (Congress last updated consumer privacy law in 1988, when they banned video-store clerks from telling newspapers which VHS cassettes you rented as a result of the data released during the Clarence Thomas hearings). Whether you're worried about Big Tech brainwashing, AI deepfake porn, red state Attorneys General following teens into abortion clinics, or cops rounding up the identities of protesters with "reverse-warrants" served on Google. But the first legal definition of privacy was the Warren and Brandeis report<ref name="Warren" /> published after some newspaper gossip column reporting in Boston about a Brandeis relative. It seems that most attempts to control privacy have come as a reaction to an unflattering (or dangerous) exposure of "private" information.		The best way to describe privacy is by the reactions against data released to the public. Lately we're seeing a growing "Privacy First" movement that recognizes that so many of America's ills start with the country's poor privacy protections (Congress last updated consumer privacy law in 1988, when they banned video-store clerks from telling newspapers which VHS cassettes you rented as a result of the data released during the Clarence Thomas hearings). Whether you're worried about Big Tech brainwashing, AI deepfake porn, red state Attorneys General following teens into abortion clinics, or cops rounding up the identities of protesters with "reverse-warrants" served on Google. But the first legal definition of privacy was the Warren and Brandeis report<ref name="Warren" /> published after some newspaper gossip column reporting in Boston about a Brandeis relative. It seems that most attempts to control privacy have come as a reaction to an unflattering (or dangerous) exposure of "private" information.
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		+	The best source for what users understand and expect is available from the Pew Research Center.<ref>Brooke Auxier +4, ''Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information'' Pew Research Center 2019-11-15 https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information/</ref>

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