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Privacy:
What
are
we
actually
talking
about?
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A
mul:disc ip l
inary
approach
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Fraunhofer
Ins:tute
for
Systems
and
Innova:on
Research
ISI
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Strasse
48
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Karlsruhe
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Germany
Sixth
PrimeLife/IFIP
Summer
School
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Helsingborg
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At
a
glance
1 Introduction
2 The different perspectives
Ethical dimension Social perspective Economic aspects
3 Conclusion
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Old
or
new
topic?
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perspec:ve
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Economic
aspects
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Conclusion
September 2008 July 1970
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Introduc)on
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dimension
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perspec:ve
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aspects
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Conclusion
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to
know, maybe you should not be doing it in the first
place.“ Erik Schmidt (Google CEO) in an interview on CNBC in
December 2009
“You have zero privacy anyway, get over it.“ Scott McNealy
(former CEO of Sun Microsystems) at a press conference in 1999
“People have really gotten comfortable not only
sharing more information and different kinds, but
more openly and with more people.“ Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of
Facebook) at the Crunchie awards, San Francisco, in 2010
Challenging
privacy
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Ethical
dimension
W h y d o w e c o n s i d e r p r i v a c y a
s s o m e t h i n g w o r t h y t o p r o t e c t ?
Biological arguments - Territorial behaviour and avoidance of
overcrowding
Anthropological perspective - Privacy as a “cultural
universal”
Psychological aspects - Safety valve function
Feminists’ perception - Instrument of power from men over
women
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Ethical
dimension
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2010
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perspec:ve
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aspects
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Conclusion
Religious influence - Private realm as a sacred place
Liberalism - Privacy as a negative (defensive) and positive
right
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Social
perspec:ve
I s t h e r e a s o c i a l v a l u e t o p r
i v a c y ?
Dichotomy between private and public - Zero-sum game
Schoppenhauer’s hedgehog’s dilemma - Hobbes’ homo homini
lupus and Aristotle’s zoon politicon
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perspec)ve
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aspects
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Conclusion
Conflicting values - Privacy vs. national security; privacy
vs. transparency
Balancing processes - Testing of a legitimate end,
suitability, necessity and
proportionality
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Social
perspec:ve
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Pursuit of the greater good - Danger of Tocqueville’s tyranny
of the majority
“Dark side” of privacy - Shields terrorists and other
criminals from being discovered
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Economic
aspects
W h a t
i s
t h e r e
t o
g a i n
o r
l o s e
f r o m
p r i v a c y ?
Actor-centred approach - Privacy Protector (PP)
• Dual Choice Model: “Giving away” or “Retaining Privacy”
- Information Collector (IC) • Options of action involve the
collecting, aggregating, storing and processing of
personal data, the reaction to privacy breaches as well as the
deployment of
PETs
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Economic
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Cost-benefit matrix of the PP
Cost-benefit matrix of the IC
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Conclusion
Overlaps - Intrinsic value of privacy and the need of
balancing
Synergetic effects - Ethical aspects as a complement to the
economic perspective
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