Data Privacy Day

January 28, 2009

Today, the US, Canada, and a host of European countries are celebrating the second annual Data Privacy Day. In honor of Data Privacy Day, we are re-presenting Digital Natives project intern Kanupriya Tewari's video about one's "digital dossier," inspired by the privacy chapter in John Palfrey and Urs Gasser's Born Digital:

For more on privacy from the Digital Natives project check out their blog posts on digital privacy and digital identity. Also, last spring the project convened a roundtable on identity and privacy online (with video). And for more videos from the Digital Natives Project, check out all the pieces produced to date for the Reporters in the Field series.

More -- a sample of recent considerations of privacy from around the Berkman network:

• Is Privacy an Illusion? Jonathan Zittrain weighs in... (on the Big Think blog)
• "Breaching Trust," China’s TOM-Skype platform (Citizen Lab Psiphon Fellow Nart Villeneuve's investigative report)
• There is no privacy? (from the An Eye on Surveillance blog)
• Circumventing censorship: issues of trust (Rebecca MacKinnon)
• What the Web Knows About You (Harry Lewis on the Blown to Bits blog)