Category Identity / Privacy

Behavioral sciences, Identity / Privacy, Socio-cultural change, Technology (general)

The drive for privacy and the difficulty of achieving it in the digital age

People care and act to manage their privacy, but face steep psychological and economic hurdles that make not just desired, but also desirable privacy nearly unattainable. Approaches to privacy management that rely purely on market forces and consumer responsibilization have failed.

Experientia
9 Aug 2021

Behavioral sciences, Identity / Privacy, Technology (general)

Review and insight on the behavioral aspects of cybersecurity

Since the majority of cyber incidents are human enabled, this shift requires expanding research to underexplored areas such as behavioral aspects of cybersecurity. This paper provides a review of relevant theories and principles, and gives insights including an interdisciplinary framework that combines behavioral cybersecurity, human factors, and modeling and simulation.

Experientia
24 Jun 2021

Behavioral sciences, Devices, Identity / Privacy, Internet of Things, Technology (general)

Understanding the human aspects of cyber security

CyberBitsEtc. is a website and blog by Ganna Pogrebna (Professor of Behavioural Economics and Data Science, Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute) and Boris Taratine (Cyber Security Architect and Visionary) that focuses a lot on the human aspects of cyber security, in particular behavioural design, psychology and behavioural sciences.

Experientia
24 Jun 2021

Finance, Financial services, Identity / Privacy

The end of privacy? Central banks plan to launch digital coins

The great irony is that the revolution that bitcoin set off could be the end of [financial] privacy with the launch of central bank-backed digital coins.

Experientia
14 Jun 2021

Data, Identity / Privacy

Shoshana Zuboff explains why you should care about privacy

In a wide-ranging interview with Lauren Jackson of the New York Times, the author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” talks about why people should pay attention to how big tech companies are using their information.

Experientia
23 May 2021

Identity / Privacy, Marketing, Socio-cultural change

What’s mine is ours: how consumption is changing

When customers form an emotional attachment or self-identify with a product, that sense of “mine” enhances its luster and keeps them coming back for more. As shoppers shift away from owning material things, how can marketers preserve these benefits?

Experientia
5 Mar 2021

Data, Identity / Privacy

[Book] Privacy is Power

The first book to call for the end of the data economy. Carissa Veliz exposes how our personal data is giving too much to big tech and governments, why that matters, and what we can do about it.

Experientia
23 Oct 2020

AI, Ethnography, Identity / Privacy

You are not your data but your data is still you

New worlds need new language. TOne of those things to name is what is happening to ourselves and our data proxies. Expanding our language from privacy to personhood enables us to have conversations that enable us to see that our data is us, our data is valuable, and our data is being collected automatically.

Experientia
21 Aug 2020

Health, Identity / Privacy, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

Covid-19 and Social Innovation: Contactless sociability and hybrid communities of place

While some optimists think there will be a lasting positive change in our well-being model, with the quality of relationships and common goods at its centre, Manzini argues that things are not necessary going in that direction. A confrontation is required.

Experientia
13 Apr 2020

Culture, Identity / Privacy, Technology (general)

Five short papers on online privacy by Carissa Véliz

Carissa Véliz is a philosopher and ethicist who works on digital ethics, practical ethics more generally, political philosophy, and public policy

Experientia
3 Mar 2020

Culture, Identity / Privacy, Innovation

We need to save (willful) ignorance from AI

Recently the psychologist Ralph Hertwig and legal scholar Christoph Engel have published an extensive taxonomy of motives for deliberate ignorance. They identified two sets of motives, in particular, that have a particular relevance to the need for ignorance in the…

Experientia
10 Oct 2018

Culture, Identity / Privacy, Innovation, Technology (general)

Videos from the MyData 2018 conference

The MyData 2018 conference took place in Helsinki on August 29-31. The core idea behind the MyData movement is that we, you and I, should have an easy way to see where data about us goes, specify who can use…

Experientia
26 Sep 2018

Design, Design (general), Identity / Privacy

Essay: On Weaponised Design

On Weaponised Design is an excellent, very well-informed essay by Cade, published in February 2018 on the Our Data Our Selves site of the Tactical Technology Collective, a Berlin-based non profit dedicated to privacy, digital security and info-activism. The lived…

Experientia
27 Apr 2018

Design, Europe, Identity / Privacy, Public services, Service design

Dan Hill argues for more identity, not less

Dan Hill (Associate Director, Arup, London) reflects in a long essay on the meaning of identity in the face of Brexit and Trump and what that implies for strategic design, service design and the infrastructure of everyday life. A few…

Experientia
29 Mar 2017

Business, Challenges, Ethnography, Identity / Privacy, Socio-cultural change, Technology (general)

IFTF uncovers seven new worker archetypes of the on-demand economy

Update: Read also this Fortune Magazine review of the study (as reported by BoingBoing). Institute for the Future, the Caiifornia-based independent, nonprofit strategic research group, releases a new report aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of a new breed of…

Experientia
2 Oct 2016

Culture, Ethnography, Europe, Identity / Privacy, Methods, Public services, Socio-cultural change

Politicians need to commit to ethnographic research if they want to understand people

Business anthropologist Simon Roberts has campaigned hard for the “Remain” side in the UK referendum and is deeply disappointed. He now explores a topic that I too have been arguing for some time now: Politicians, political parties and those in…

Experientia
28 Jun 2016

Audience, Book, Culture, Identity / Privacy, Teens

New book series: Connected Youth and Digital Futures

Building on research supported by the MacArthur Foundationâ€™s Digital Media and Learning initiative, New York University Press launches Connected Youth and Digital Futures, a new series that explores young peopleâ€™s day-to-day lives and futures. This series offers books – available…

Experientia
8 May 2016

Culture, Ethnography, Identity / Privacy, Media, Methods, User research

Why We Post: social media through the eyes of the world

Nine UCL anthropologists spent fifteen months living in nine communities around the world, researching the role, uses and consequences of social media in people’s everyday lives. University College London just launched an enormous repository with the results of this global…

Experientia
1 Mar 2016

Culture, Identity / Privacy, Socio-cultural change, Technology (general)

The Power of Privacy – documentary film

In this half-hour film (commissioned by The Guardian and Silent Circle), Aleks Krotoski travels the world to undergo challenges that explore our digital life in the 21st century. Watch her be stalked and hacked, fight to get leaked documents back,…

Experientia
28 Jan 2016