We’ve been talking to computers for a surprisingly long time. Can you even remember when a phone menu first misunderstand your accent? Obviously there have been visible (and audible) advances in technology since then: voice assistants are increasingly embedded parts of our lives. A talk by Joseph Turow to the Privacy and Identity Lab (a […]
Month: February 2022
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Information sharing, trust, and more…
Using and sharing information can create benefits, but can also cause harm. Trust can be an amplifier in both directions: with potential to increase benefit and to increase harm. If your data, purposes and systems are trusted – by individuals, partners and society – then you are likely to be offered more data. By choosing […]
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Managing the risks of Subject Access
My LLM dissertation (published ($$) in 2016 as “Is the Subject Access Right Now Too Great a Threat to Privacy?”) discussed the challenge of reliably identifying a data subject who you only know through pseudonymous digital channels or identifiers. Others have conducted practical experiments, finding that it would, indeed, be relatively easy to use GDPR […]
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Automating Digital Infrastructures
Most of our digital infrastructures rely on automation to function smoothly. Cloud services adjust automatically to changes in demand; firewalls detect when networks are under attack and automatically try to pick out good traffic from bad. Automation adjusts faster and on a broader scale than humans. That has advantages: when Jisc’s CSIRT responded manually to […]