Codesleuth

• We produce data and it’s easy to save it…

• The metadata of our data is easier to analyse than the data

• Metadata is a side effect
• Covert
• Not obvious
• Not noticed
• Hard to opt-out

“Data is the exhaust”

• Ubiquitous
  • Happens everywhere

• Hops in connections between individuals lead to a web of loops

• “If you’re not the customer, you’re the product”

• Everyone expected the web to be free…

• Personalisation is more surveillance data

• Google knows more about you than you do
  • “Google knows what kind of porn you like”

• You wouldn’t carry a GPS device from the government but you carry a phone with GPS tracking syncing to Google

• Fear is the driver for surveillance
  • But, data = power
• We must/need:
  • separate espionage from surveillance
  • comprehensive data protection laws
  • ubiquitous encryption
    • encryption forces the listener to target an individual
    • prevents the listener from eavesdropping on everyone, only the few
  • to value our privacy

• How do we design systems that protect us socially?

• Benefits of social surveillance exist
  • Google Maps traffic is crowd sourced from all users
    • Great for groups
    • Bad for the individual

“Metadata is the pollution”