INFO 188 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Spartacus
27 Dec 2018
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Motivation limits of provision mechanisms & power asymmetry. Provision mechanisms of privacy do not protect (or provide redress) against all types of data-related harms or threats. Social or economic loss by opting out. When privacy isn"t being provided by these mechanisms, people might turn to actions that they can do themselves (individually and group) Producing misleading, false, or ambiguous data to make data gathering less reliable and therefor less valuable (brunton & nissenbaum) Might want to hide their actions (don"t want to be tracked or read by the system) political resistance expression . Feelings of fears of discrimination and being selectively targeted good enough as part of other practices. Not just about i"m hiding something data is collected from social practices people act and perform in all social practices. Data vs. capta focuses on agency of data collectors ( design constituency ) Obfuscation focuses on agency of people, users ( impact.
