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Dan Solove on Privacy
My interview of Dan Solove is live at IT Conversations. Dan doesn’t use the familiar metaphor of “Big Brother” when he discusses privacy, rather he uses Kafka’s play “The Trial.” Dan says we’re not as much in danger of having our privacy violated by someone with evil intent as we are of having our lives turned upside down from the interactions of unapproachable and faceless corporations and bureaucracies. Dan speaks of privacy architectures and says that we currently have an architecture of vulnerability. Many of our privacy problems, like identity theft, are structural. Unlike some who view privacy as “dead,” Dan is hopeful that privacy can be saved. Dan’s recent book, The Digital Person: Technology And Privacy In The Information Age, is a detailed and approachable resource on privacy issues and the laws that affect them.
Posted by windley on April 25, 2005 10:08 AM
Comment from John McClure at May 1, 2005 9:33 PM
I listened to your interview with Dan Solove, which I downloaded from IT Conversations and I must say, it seems that there is somewhat of a quandary regarding our personal information.
I’ve decided to write up a short expose on the issues surrounding the use of personal information, and what is public, and what is private, and how we can better protect our information from being misappropriated and used in damaging ways to our record.
I really was intrigued by the topic and will be brainstorming on a solution. Thanks for the attention to this subject, and I look forward to more such interviews.