It's often true that privacy professionals talk about the datafication of our lives as being impersonal. In fact, however, data is incredibly personal and intimate, and the technologies we employ impact us in incredibly intimate ways. That was the message yesterday from keynoter Karen Levy at the IAPP's Privacy. Security. Risk. conference here in San Diego. Levy is a sociologist at Cornell University, and she's currently working on the ways in which surveillance is bound up with our intimate lives, emphasizing that privacy professionals need to work beyond compliance and closely examine the ways technologies are going to be used, in particular, in asymmetric power dynamics. Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, has the details for The Privacy Advisor.
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