I presented my research area in a short 1 minute… My research has demonstrated that patients have a good understanding and vocabulary to convey social privacy concerns and mitigating behaviours they employ. What is less understood is how data is collected and processed by social media platforms, making risks difficult to articulate. When there is…
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We Need a Common Language for the Internet of Things
Reposted from Internet Society When someone tells me they have bought smart light bulbs, an Internet-connected pet cam, or any other Internet of Things (IoT) device, I always get an unsettled feeling in the pit of my stomach. They’re so excited about the affordances or their new IoT devices and apps, but I am skeptical…
ISOC Multi-Sided Trust for Multi-Sided Platforms
Reposted from CaSMa: In the spirit of recent events surrounding the revelations about Cambridge Analytica and the breaches of trust regarding Facebook and personal data, ISOC UK and the Horizon Digital Economy Research institute held a panel discussion on “Multi Sided Trust for Multi Sided Platforms“. The panel brought together representatives from different sectors to…
Talking digital footprints with youth
Since being awarded as one of the Internet Society’s 25 Under 25 I have been quite busy with different requests and such like. I was invited to speak to some young people at a primary school about digital footprints and online safety. Talking about the Internet and its challenges is not something I am used…
Free Health Apps
* Full Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, but I am a healthy sceptic/critic of privacy policies. My PhD research focuses on notions of informed consent and data trade-offs. I recently read this post by Jen that reviews the Gut Health Storylines app. A mobile application by Self Care Catalysts (SCC) for people living with…
The extent of how far social networking technology affords individual freedom
Digital technology affords individuals with the access and ability to contribute to a diverse range of information and communities (Benkler, 2006). In real-life people become exposed to and part of different and “unmediated” (boyd, 2014) social contexts that extend from their home dynamics: a child may go to school as adults go to work. Speaking…
Digital Division, a commentary on the rich and poor
I’ve recently read an article by the Daily Dot entitled “Privacy is creating a new digital divide between the rich and poor” and it feels problematic. It explores how only the educated and wealthy can afford to be private citizens in the digital. What does it mean to be wealthy in the post-digital age? What…
laptop:config
Until now, I have been parading around with my (comparatively heavy) 5-year-old Macbook Pro that is eccentrically covered in pop-culture stickers and has the webcam taped over. The very explicit act of covering my webcam is quite often a talking point and although I am not the only to do it amongst my colleagues, there…
An Open PhD
My life as a PhD candidate has begun at Horizon CDT! I plan on making the development of my thesis and projects open – an ‘Open PhD’ if you will. This isn’t going to be a day-to-day account, but an outward facing space for my thoughts that I am open to discuss with others in…
A note on learners’ digital footprints
So yesterday I was (unsurprisingly) talking about learners’ data, not just their learning data but all their data that has been harvested over years, before they enter a university classroom. Forget digital migrants and natives, just because students are now growing up with digital technologies (I did) it doesn’t mean that they have any more…