Privacy's blueprint : the battle to control the design of new technologies / Woodrow Hartzog.
2018
KF1262 .H37 2018eb
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Privacy's blueprint : the battle to control the design of new technologies / Woodrow Hartzog.
ISBN
9780674985124 (electronic book)
0674985125 (electronic book)
9780674976009
0674976002
0674985125 (electronic book)
9780674976009
0674976002
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 366 pages) : illustrations
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KF1262 .H37 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
342.7308/58
Summary
Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of things are all built in ways that make it hard to guard personal information. And the law says this is okay because it is up to users to protect themselves--even when the odds are deliberately stacked against them. In Privacy's Blueprint, Woodrow Hartzog pushes back against this state of affairs, arguing that the law should require software and hardware makers to respect privacy in the design of their products. Current legal doctrine treats technology as though it were value-neutral: only the user decides whether it functions for good or ill. But this is not so. As Hartzog explains, popular digital tools are designed to expose people and manipulate users into disclosing personal information. Against the often self-serving optimism of Silicon Valley and the inertia of tech evangelism, Hartzog contends that privacy gains will come from better rules for products, not users. The current model of regulating use fosters exploitation. Privacy's Blueprint aims to correct this by developing the theoretical underpinnings of a new kind of privacy law responsive to the way people actually perceive and use digital technologies. The law can demand encryption. It can prohibit malicious interfaces that deceive users and leave them vulnerable. It can require safeguards against abuses of biometric surveillance. It can, in short, make the technology itself worthy of our trust.-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The case for taking design seriously in privacy law
Why design is (almost) everything
Privacy law's design gap
Privacy values in design
Setting boundaries for design
A toolkit for privacy design
Social media
Hide and seek technologies
The internet of things.
Why design is (almost) everything
Privacy law's design gap
Privacy values in design
Setting boundaries for design
A toolkit for privacy design
Social media
Hide and seek technologies
The internet of things.