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Choose Privacy Week 2016 – Privacy and Respect for Individuals

Document Type

Blog Posting

Publication Date

2016

Publication Title

Intellectual Freedom Blog

Abstract

Have you looked at your Google or Bing search history recently? You should. When you do, you’ll find a list of all the questions you’ve asked your digital assistant. Maybe you asked who won Super Bowl XX (It was Da Bears.). Maybe you asked where else you’d seen that new actor on Game of Thrones (It was The Exorcist). Or maybe you wanted to learn more about Bernie Sanders, or Donald Trump, or radical Islam, or the Klan, or shoe fetishists. Whatever you searched for, it’s worth a look. You’ll see a history of your mental wonderings and wanderings, your curiosities. In a very real sense, what you’ll see is a partial transcript of the operations of your mind.

Keywords

Privacy, Digital Rights, Individual Respect, Choose Privacy Week, American Library Association, Data Protection, Civil Liberties, Online Privacy, Surveillance, Ethical Technology

Publication Citation

Neil M. Richards & Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Choose Privacy Week 2016 – Privacy and Respect for Individuals, Intellectual Freedom Blog (May 4, 2016), https://www.oif.ala.org/choose-privacy-week-2016-privacy-respect-individuals/

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