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I’m going to try a new style of publishing. I’ve spent many years either writing or making presentations. I’m going to try using Medium to do both. The series that follows will have a presentation as the image, and a shortish description of the argument as text. Let’s see if that helps spread understanding.
For many years now, I’ve been convinced that we’ve been thinking about the privacy problem in the wrong way. This talk is my first effort at framing the alternatives.
The contrast I want to draw is between techniques that protect privacy by empowering users to control access to their data versus techniques that regulate uses, leaving to users a much narrower range of possible or necessary choice.
I’ve been attracted to this contrast ever since Jon Zittrain noted the parallel between debates about copyright and debates about privacy. The implication of his argument was that maybe we should approach the privacy problem in the way we copyright activists were critiquing copyright: Namely, just as we…
