Carissa Véliz on Privacy and Digital Design

This is a brilliant talk, but you have to listen right through to the end. Nothing she says, at least in the first ten minutes of this talk, is actually inherent in digital representation. That it is the case is true, but it’s not necessarily the case. It’s just that we don’t have well enough educated people designing the systems. Talks like this will help, though, as long as people realise that there are ways to use digital technology that make it possible to preserve privacy, even though they could also be used to authenticate identity.

See also this article she wrote in The Conversation: Carissa Véliz, filósofa: “Muchos adolescentes ni siquiera alcanzan a imaginar cómo es vivir con privacidad”.

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Blaise Agüera y Arcas Is Google’s CTO of Technology & Society. He is too busy telling everyone what life is to bother with tedious stuff like privacy and totalitarianism.

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