Tag: privacy
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Preserving privacy in the age of Big Data
1 May 2020
Author:Sian Brooke
Siân Brooke, researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, explores the challenges of a data driven economy and the impact on our personal privacy in the digital ...
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Design ethics for gender-based violence and safety technologies
25 July 2017
Author:Ben Zevenbergen
Digital technologies are increasingly proposed as innovative solution to the problems and threats faced by vulnerable groups such as children, women, and LGBTQ people. However, there exists a structural ...
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How and why is children’s digital data being harvested?
10 May 2017
Author:Huw Davies
“Whether your child is an artist, a storyteller, a singer or a scientist, I’m the lovable little friend that will bring that out!” says the FisherPrice Smart Bear. Everyone ...
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Protected: PGP/GPG Survey Results
29 September 2016
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Symposium on Big Data and Human Development – closing remarks
19 September 2016
Author:It has been an extremely rewarding two days at the Symposium on Big Data and Human Development that Eduardo Lopez and I organised. We had a full room of ...
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Consultation response to "Keeping Children Safe in Education: proposed changes"
27 February 2016
Author:Ian Brown
Profs. Ian Brown and Douwe Korff, February 2016 Introduction
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New Voluntary Code: Guidance for Sharing Data Between Organisations
8 January 2016
Author:Alison Holt
Many organisations are coming up with their own internal policy and guidelines for data sharing. However, for data sharing between organisations to be straight forward, there needs to a ...
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CPDP2016: Panel on Technologies for Border Control
7 January 2016
Author:This year I organise together with Diana Dimitrova, a legal researcher from the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law, a panel at the Computer, Privacy & Data Protection conference in ...
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Government “only” retaining online metadata still presents a privacy risk
30 November 2015
Author:Issues around data capture, retention and control are gaining significant attention in many Western countries — including in the UK. In this piece originally posted on the Ethics Centre Blog, the OII’s ...
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Iris scanners can now identify us from 40 feet away, but we don’t have to accept it
21 May 2015
Author:Anne-Marie Oostveen, University of Oxford and Diana Dimitrova, Katholiek Universiteit of Leuven Biometric technologies are on the rise. By electronically recording data about individual’s physical attributes such as fingerprints ...
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Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2015
1 May 2015
Author:Today I received the good news that the Scientific Committee of the Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2015 has accepted our panel ‘Privacy, Data Protection, and Ethics of Automation and Identification ...
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Big Data: the New Water or the New Oil?
18 December 2014
Author:Josh Cowls
In definitional terms, big data is, as we are repeatedly told, a matter of volume, velocity, variety and sometimes veracity.… Read more Big Data: the New Water or the ...
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Protecting privacy in the GOV.UK Verify scheme
6 November 2014
Author:Ian Brown
For the last two years I’ve been working with colleagues in the Cabinet Office’s Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group to develop privacy principles for the government’s online identity assurance ...
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Designing Internet technologies for the public good
8 October 2014
Author:Ian Brown
The ongoing development of computing, communications and storage technologies presents a challenge to privacy protection, given the increasing ease with which personal data can be collected, analysed, stored, and ...
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Don’t spy on us!
8 June 2014
Author:Ian Brown
Very inspiring today to see over 500 people turn up for the Don’t Spy On Us coalition’s day of action, on the first anniversary of Edward Snowden’s leaks. There ...
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Past and Emerging Themes in Policy and Internet Studies
12 May 2014
Author:What kind of research does the journal Policy & Internet publish? Editor Vili Lehdonvirta approaches the question from two angles; first, by examining the question empirically, through a brief ...
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Piecing Together the Value of Big Data
31 March 2014
Author:Josh Cowls
During the construction of a jigsaw or model, there is invariably a moment in which one’s perception shifts from the level… Read more Piecing Together the Value of Big Data
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Finally, some high-level UK debate on Internet surveillance
4 March 2014
Author:Ian Brown
You wait nine months for some UK political debate on the mass Internet surveillance by the National Security Agency and GCHQ revealed by Edward Snowden, then two speeches come ...
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Big Data’s People Problem
28 November 2013
Author:Josh Cowls
To Google Campus in east London to hear what a number of practitioners thought were the most controversial questions surrounding… Read more Big Data’s People Problem
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Ethical privacy guidelines for mobile connectivity measurements
7 November 2013
Author:Ben Zevenbergen
To make sense of today’s increasingly complex Internet architecture, network researchers collect and share datasets of network measurements, from detailed individual-level traces to data aggregated on a regional level. ...
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