IC Colloquium: Contextual Integrity Up and Down the Data Food Chain
Event details
| Date | 08.10.2018 |
| Hour | 16:15 › 17:30 |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
By: Helen Nissenbaum - Cornell Tech
Video of her talk
Abstract:
According to the theory of contextual integrity (CI), privacy is appropriate flow of information. Appropriate flow is captured by norms, or rules, governing information flows with reference to five parameters – sender, recipient, subject, information type, and transmission principle. The values of these parameters range over contextually meaningful ontologies -- of actors (acting in particular capacities) and information types. The growing landscape of networked, sensor-enabled devices (IoT) and data ravenous machine learning systems generates data whose semantics is unclear. As such it poses a challenge to theories, such as CI, that depend of descriptions of data flows in meaningful terms. This talk provides an overview of the theory of contextual integrity, distinguishes it from other accounts of privacy, and explores these contemporary challenges.
Bio:
Helen Nissenbaum is a professor of information science at Cornell Tech, where she is founding director of the Digital Life Initiative, focusing on ethics, politics, and quality of life in digital societies. Her books include Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest, with F. Brunton (2015), Values at Play in Digital Games, with M. Flanagan (2014), and Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (2010). Recipient of the 2014 Barwise Prize of the American Philosophical Association, Nissenbaum has contributed to privacy-enhancing software: TrackMeNot and AdNauseam. She has earned grants from the US National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, MacArthur Foundation, and others, many of these, in fruitful collaboration with colleagues in computer science and engineering. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and BA (Hons) in mathematics and philosophy from University of Witwatersrand.
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Video of her talk
Abstract:
According to the theory of contextual integrity (CI), privacy is appropriate flow of information. Appropriate flow is captured by norms, or rules, governing information flows with reference to five parameters – sender, recipient, subject, information type, and transmission principle. The values of these parameters range over contextually meaningful ontologies -- of actors (acting in particular capacities) and information types. The growing landscape of networked, sensor-enabled devices (IoT) and data ravenous machine learning systems generates data whose semantics is unclear. As such it poses a challenge to theories, such as CI, that depend of descriptions of data flows in meaningful terms. This talk provides an overview of the theory of contextual integrity, distinguishes it from other accounts of privacy, and explores these contemporary challenges.
Bio:
Helen Nissenbaum is a professor of information science at Cornell Tech, where she is founding director of the Digital Life Initiative, focusing on ethics, politics, and quality of life in digital societies. Her books include Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest, with F. Brunton (2015), Values at Play in Digital Games, with M. Flanagan (2014), and Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (2010). Recipient of the 2014 Barwise Prize of the American Philosophical Association, Nissenbaum has contributed to privacy-enhancing software: TrackMeNot and AdNauseam. She has earned grants from the US National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, MacArthur Foundation, and others, many of these, in fruitful collaboration with colleagues in computer science and engineering. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and BA (Hons) in mathematics and philosophy from University of Witwatersrand.
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- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Contact
- Host: Carmela Troncoso