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[DIDW] Positive privacy

Having a new thinking tool is great fun. During his opening keynote, Phil Becker commented that "privacy was about what you're not allowed to do with data" and it struck me that's a very negative way to think about privacy. While I agree that's one way to look at things, I think that approach (forbidding use of data for triangulation) is remedial and the symptom of the lack of a positive model.

Maybe legislating for privacy is less about prohibiting what we fear and more about facilitating what we lack? It's about creating a context for the middle register, not about keeping things that are secret from becoming public but about ensuring there is an accessible place for each of the roles that I play without them blending in an undesirable way.

posted at 6:27 PM (UK) | |