Privacy

Privacy in Kyle’s wiki is the human-stakes pole of a three-way cluster with Data Privacy and Personal User Data — built from a June 29th, 2021 Roam “Quick Capture” reading log on surveillance, data ownership, and trust scoring. The most synthesized claim comes from Homo Deus, where Yuval Noah Harari frames personal data as “the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer,” surrendered to tech giants in exchange for services — and warns that people “just want to be part of the data flow, even if that means giving up their privacy, their autonomy and their individuality.” The book also flags a geopolitical edge: US biotech worries that “strict privacy laws in the USA combined with Chinese disregard for individual privacy may hand China the genetic market on a plate.” Amazon appears as a node in the same thread, tagged off the “constant consumer” reading.

The saved links below — Zuboff’s Age of Surveillance Capitalism, the WSJ “secret trust scores” piece, “another tax on the poor: surrendering privacy for survival,” the data-as-a-human-right Economist piece, and the Xinjiang DNA story — map the debate Kyle was tracking: data as an asset to be owned and compensated for vs. a vector of surveillance and discrimination. These are unsynthesized reading pointers, kept verbatim.

Context: Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019) named the practice of converting personal data into behavioral-prediction products as a distinct economic logic; it became a touchstone for the data-privacy debate the saved links here trace.

Quick Capture links — June 29th, 2021

• https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-trust-scores-companies-use-to-judge-us-all-11554523206
• https://www.fastcompany.com/90317495/another-tax-on-the-poor-surrendering-privacy-for-survival
• https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/new-ecosystem-trust/
• https://www.npr.org/2019/03/10/702028545/googling-strangers-one-professors-lesson-on-privacy-in-public-spaces
• https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-the-life-insurance-industry-wants-to-creep-on-your-instagram
• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/yuval-noah-harari-the-new-threat-to-liberal-democracy
• https://theodi.org/article/ordnance-survey-and-other-data-stewards-must-innovate-to-keep-up-with-the-private-sector/
• https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/06/27/141776/lets-make-private-data-into-a-public-good/
• https://www.fastcompany.com/40583554/this-tool-lets-you-see-and-correct-the-bias-in-an-algorithm
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/19/there-is-a-leftwing-way-to-challenge-big-data-here-it-is
• https://medium.com/@dpatil/a-code-of-ethics-for-data-science-cda27d1fac1
• https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697
• https://www.vox.com/2019/2/20/18232469/shoshana-zuboff-age-surveillance-capitalism-book-google-facebook-privacy-data-kara-swisher
• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/business/china-xinjiang-uighur-dna-thermo-fisher.html
• https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/01/21/we-need-to-own-our-data-as-a-human-right-and-be-compensated-for-it
• https://time.com/collection-post/5502591/tim-cook-data-privacy/
• https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/29/643386327/no-cash-needed-at-this-cafe-students-pay-the-tab-with-their-personal-data
• https://reallifemag.com/the-constant-consumer/ - Amazon
• http://research.google.com/bigpicture/attacking-discrimination-in-ml/
• https://www.fastcompany.com/90207550/this-co-op-lets-patients-monetize-their-own-health-data

Where this appears

• Homo Deus — personal data as “the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer”; privacy traded for data-flow membership; the US/China privacy-law asymmetry.
• Amazon — a node in the consumer-data thread (the “constant consumer” reading).
• Data Privacy / Personal User Data — the sibling concepts sharing this reading cluster.