Privacy
Readings on privacy, why it matters, its relationship to consent, and case studies that emphasize both the importance and difficulty of ensuring privacy in data science.
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Processing Objects as Data
| Title | Citation |
|---|---|
| Privacy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | DeCew (2018) |
| Why Privacy is Important | Rachels (1975) |
| Why We Care about Privacy | McFarland (2012) |
| Privacy and Human Behavior in the Age of Information | Acquisti, Brandimarte, & Loewenstein (2015) |
| Philosophy of Privacy and Digital Life | Allen (2019) |
| Surveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy | Acquisti et al. (2015) |
| From Individual to Group Privacy in Big Data Analytics | Mittelstadt (2017) |
| Big Data Privacy: A Technological Perspective and Review | Jain, Gyanchandani, & Khare (2016) |
| A Modern Pascal’s Wager for Mass Electronic Surveillance | Danks (2014) |
| Privacy and Paternalism: The Ethics of Student Data Collection | Creel & Dixit (2022) |
| It’s Not Privacy, and It’s Not Fair | Dwork & Mulligan (2013) |
| The Surveillance Society: Information Technology and Bureaucratic Social Control | Gandy (1989) |
| Big Data’s End Run around Procedural Privacy Protections | Barocas & Nissenbaum (2014) |
| Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance | Marlinspike (2013) |
| Between Privacy and Utility: On Differential Privacy in Theory and Practice | Seeman & Susser (2023) |
| Can a Set of Equations keep U.S. Census Data Private? | Mervis (2019) |
| Why ‘Anonymous’ Data Sometimes Isn’t | Schneier (2007) |
| Recommender Systems and their Ethical Challenges | Milano, Taddeo, & Floridi (2020) |
| 70,000 OkCupid Profiles Leaked, Intimate Details And All | Woollacott (2016) |
References
Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2015). Privacy and human behavior in the age of information. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347, 509–514. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa1465
Allen, A. L. (2019, October 31). The philosophy of privacy and digital life. 21–38. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association. Retrieved from https://ssrn.com/abstract=4022657
Barocas, S., & Nissenbaum, H. (2014). Big data’s end run around procedural privacy protections. Communications of the ACM, 57, 31–33. https://doi.org/10.1145/2668897
Creel, K., & Dixit, T. (2022). Privacy and Paternalism: The Ethics of Student Data Collection. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/privacy-and-paternalism-the-ethics-of-student-data-collection/; The MIT Press Reader.
Danks, D. (2014). A modern pascal’s wager for mass electronic surveillance. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6490751.V1
DeCew, J. (2018). Privacy. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Spring 2018). https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2018/entries/privacy/; Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.
Dwork, C., & Mulligan, D. K. (2013). It’s Not Privacy, and It’s Not Fair. https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/privacy-and-big-data-its-not-privacy-and-its-not-fair/; Stanford Law Review.
Gandy, O., Jr. (1989). The surveillance society: Information technology and bureaucratic social control. Journal of Communication, 39, 61–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1989.tb01040.x
Jain, P., Gyanchandani, M., & Khare, N. (2016). Big data privacy: A technological perspective and review. Journal of Big Data, 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-016-0059-y
Marlinspike, M. (2013). Why ’I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance. https://www.wired.com/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-the-wrong-way-to-think-about-surveillance/; Wired.
McFarland, M. (2012). Why We Care about Privacy. https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/internet-ethics/resources/why-we-care-about-privacy/; Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.
Mervis, J. (2019). Can a set of equations keep u.s. Census data private? https://www.science.org/content/article/can-set-equations-keep-us-census-data-private.
Milano, S., Taddeo, M., & Floridi, L. (2020). Recommender systems and their ethical challenges. AI & Society, 35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-00950-y
Mittelstadt, B. (2017). From individual to group privacy in big data analytics. Philosophy & Technology, 30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-017-0253-7
Rachels, J. (1975). Why privacy is important. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 4(4), 323–333. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2265077
Schneier, B. (2007). Why ’Anonymous’ Data Sometimes Isn’t. https://www.wired.com/2007/12/why-anonymous-data-sometimes-isnt/; Wired.
Seeman, J., & Susser, D. (2023). Between privacy and utility: On differential privacy in theory and practice. Acm Journal on Responsible Computing, 1(1), 1–18.
Woollacott, E. (2016). 70,000 OkCupid profiles leaked, intimate details and all. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2016/05/13/intimate-data-of-70000-okcupid-users-released/?sh=2ac42f2f1e15; Forbes.