{"id":47547,"date":"2018-07-25T13:17:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T19:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=47547"},"modified":"2018-07-24T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T19:53:43","slug":"woodrow-hartzog-shares-insights-on-privacy-in-the-tech-world-with-privacys-blueprint-saturday-july-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/woodrow-hartzog-shares-insights-on-privacy-in-the-tech-world-with-privacys-blueprint-saturday-july-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodrow Hartzog Shares Insights on Privacy in the Tech World with “Privacy’s Blueprint” Saturday, July 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book signing at Off Square Book on Saturday, July 28 at 5 pm<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine\u00a0<\/span>their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet\u00a0<\/span>of Things are all built in ways that make it hard to guard personal\u00a0<\/span>information. And the law says this is okay because it is up to users to protect\u00a0<\/span>themselves\u2014even when the odds are deliberately stacked against them.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Privacy\u2019s Blueprint<\/strong><\/em>, Woodrow Hartzog<\/strong> pushes back against this state of\u00a0<\/span>affairs, arguing that the law should require software and hardware makers to\u00a0<\/span>respect privacy in the design of their products. Current legal doctrine treats\u00a0<\/span>technology as though it were value-neutral: only the user decides whether it\u00a0<\/span>functions for good or ill. But this is not so. As Hartzog explains, popular\u00a0<\/span>digital tools are designed to expose people and manipulate users into disclosing personal\u00a0<\/span>information.<\/span><\/p>\n

Against the often self-serving optimism of Silicon Valley and the inertia of tech evangelism,\u00a0<\/span>Hartzog contends that privacy gains will come from better rules for\u00a0 products, not users. The\u00a0<\/span>current model of regulating use fosters exploitation. Privacy\u2019s Blueprin<\/em>t aims to correct this by\u00a0<\/span>developing the theoretical underpinnings of a new kind of privacy law responsive to the way\u00a0<\/span>people actually perceive and use digital technologies. The law can demand encryption. It can\u00a0<\/span>prohibit malicious interfaces that deceive users and leave them vulnerable. It can require\u00a0<\/span>safeguards against abuses of biometric surveillance. It can, in short, make the technology itself\u00a0<\/span>worthy of our trust.<\/span><\/p>\n

Woodrow Hartzog is Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University School\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>of Law<\/strong> and College of Computer and Information Science<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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