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title: "privacy"
type: concept
related: [Privacy]
source: https://www.jemoka.com/posts/kbhprivacy/
confidence: high
status: active
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&ldquo;privacy as an individual right&rdquo;
privacy is a control of information: controlling our private information shared with others free choice with alternatives and informed understanding of what&rsquo;s offered control over personal data collection and aggregation privacy as autonomy: your agency to decide for what&rsquo;s valuable autonomy over our own lives, and our ability to lead them do you have agency? &ldquo;privacy as a social group&rdquo;
privacy as social good: social life would be severely compromised without privacy privacy allows social privacy as a display of trust: privacy enables trusting relationships &ldquo;fiduciary&rdquo;: proxy between you and a company &ldquo;should anyone who has access to personal info have a fiduciary responsibility?&rdquo; key trust questions who/what do we trust? what do we do if trust isn&rsquo;t upheald? how to approach building trust trust trust: to stop questioning the responsibility of something
intentions dependence extensions of agency We mostly don&rsquo;t trust software; instead, we trust the people that developed the software.
accountability a lot of people who are accountable in this chain:
hardware designer (intel) OS developer (iOS, ec.) app developer users stakeholder direct stakeholders (people who are operating, technicians, etc.) indirect stakeholders: patients purchase = long-term support &mdash;- what do you do to get it fixed/repaired.
time support duration obsolescence (how long is the end of support) products/services may not be garanteed forever problems with halting use&mdash;requires deleting entire pentagram account meltdown vulnerability meltdown: hardware vulnerability that allows an user program to access kernel level pages of system memory.
potential ways of fixing a vulnerability/violation of trust:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
loss of privacy aggregation Through the loss of privacy, information can be piecemeal built up to understand somebody&rsquo;s profile.
exclusion Not knowing or understanding or control how our information being used.
secondary use Using information for purposes not intended without permission.
trust trust exposes people to the risk of being betrayed/let down. Differential privacy is used to anonomyze information. especially, for operation systems, each bug can have a massive impact because it impacts billions of users.
&ldquo;trust means to stop questioning the dependability of something; you become vulnerable to it&rdquo;
trusting software is the task of extending your own AGENCY to a piece of software: &ldquo;agential gullibility&rdquo;.
examples:
ios bug: alams didn&rsquo;t go off printnightmare: printing caused remote code execution 2017 admin access without password eternalblue (caused wannacry) key points trust between different stakeholders are intertwined trust is about extending agency trust emerges through various pathways we can design ways to partially substitute the need for trust pathways to trust trust by assumption trust absent any clues to warrent it due to timing trust because there is imminent danger trust by inference trust based on information you had before brands affiliation past performance trust in prior version of software trust by substitution trust something, but having a fallback plan trust a system because there would be a backup system protecting you scales of trust scale of impact a bug in an OS can be tremendously bad &ldquo;root access&rdquo; &mdash; privileged aces scale of longevity people maybe on very very old OS it requires keeping older OSes secure against modern technologies
