Post privacy

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Post-privacy (pronounced British [ pəʊst ˈpɹɪv.ə.si ], American [ poʊst ˈpɹaɪ.və.si ], translated “What comes after privacy”) is a term that describes a state in which there is no longer any privacy and data protection no longer applies.

Origin and demarcation

The term arose around 2009 in connection with a debate about social networks on the Internet. This debate was about whether one should continue to advocate privacy or whether one should give up data protection in view of the large amount of private data on the Internet and its ease of distribution, which would correspond to the post-privacy attitude. The term “post privacy” does not include an assessment of whether post-privacy is more of a necessary burden or rather a stroke of luck.

What is meant is not that every person is monitored so that he is transparent for everyone, but that everything that is known to anyone about a person can be made transparent without any problems.

With a loss of privacy, information about social contacts, political attitudes, personal worldview, information about financial problems or even information about health problems would be easily made public and could possibly also put a person under social pressure. Critics therefore do not see post-privacy as “a higher degree of freedom”, “but an extension of the claims of the many to each individual and thus a restriction of the scope of possibilities”.

Social challenges

Post-privacy advocates believe a new social interaction is necessary in order to cope with this situation. For them, this change is not a wishful thinking, but a challenge. They believe that it is not technically possible to prevent total freedom of information on the Internet . This would mean that data protection could no longer be enforced and would affect many people sensitively. Because of this, it is not technology but people who should adapt.

The background to the idea of ​​lawlessness caused by the medium is the idea that almost always when an attempt is made to control the flow of information, an " overlay network " is formed. Examples are: B. Freenet or GNUnet . This then again offers complete lawlessness. The only alternative is the complete control of all communication by state inspectors, who can intervene filtering.

For Ian Clarke , the Freenet founder and defender of a law-free Internet, there are only two alternatives: "You cannot guarantee freedom of speech and enforce copyright law". He assumes that a lawless Internet would lead to freedom of expression .

Some post-privacy critics see this conflict too. Instead of monitoring communication, however, they rely on data economy and data avoidance so that complete tables with personal data cannot be accessed centrally. Similar to the use of DRM for images, texts or music (software cannot be photographed or recorded), such a process does not prevent copying and central compilation of the data, but only makes it more difficult. Once the file to be protected is in a lawless network, the distribution can no longer be stopped. If someone tries to drive data economy so far that the data does not even exist in a decentralized individual form, but does not exist at all, a distribution of this data is even better prevented so that the data can be used less for harmful behavior. But the constructive use of the data is no longer possible.

Post-privacy representatives point out that Google , Street View , Facebook and other Internet offerings have further shifted the line between privacy and the public . What used to remain at the regulars' table is now being spread around the world via Twitter. They also point out that much more transparency is required today, such as B. Viewable salaries.

Christian Heller points out in his book "Post-Privacy - Prima Leben Without Privacy" that some information is difficult to keep secret:

“His sexual orientation is private, and it should stay that way. However, he did his calculations without the inventors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A procedure has been developed there to determine the homosexuality of men with a Facebook profile with a high probability, even if they neither post photos nor announce preferences of any kind. All you need is an analysis of your social environment on Facebook: You are there primarily to stay in contact with friends, relatives and acquaintances. Often enough (it can be turned off, but only a few are that concerned) they are even listed in a list of friends that is visible to the world. At MIT they found out: Whether a student is gay can be approximately predicted from a certain proportion of men among his Facebook friends who come out as gay on their own profiles . "

The term "Spackeria" for the post-privacy representatives is a so-called Geusen word : It arose from the fact that these were often called "Spackos", u. a. by members of the Chaos Computer Club , so that they then applied this name to themselves as a defense, similar to what was the case with the gay movement .

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  1. ↑ Postprivacy: loss of privacy as an opportunity? ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.zdf.de
  2. ↑ What is postprivacy (for me)? “Postprivacy is also [..] the state”, “The loss of control inevitably leads to the state that the boundaries between public and non-public can no longer be self-determined. So that I no longer know what others know about me, so that in case of doubt I cannot rely on being unobserved, hiding my identity and / or my characteristics. "
  3. ↑ Blog "surveillance and security", article "Postprivacy and commune: promise of salvation with tendency to total" from December 10, 2011, http://www.security-informatics.de/blog/?p=578
  4. ↑ What is postprivacy (for me)? “That's why postprivacy is less of a“ utopia ”for me, but rather a call to utopia. For me, postprivacy is my commitment to accepting this challenge. "
  5. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE: Internet exhibitionists "Spackeria": "Privacy is something of eighties" "First of all, that is a description of the state, as the term suggests, after privacy. At the same time it is also a utopia, the ideal of a society that no longer needs privacy because there is no longer any discrimination. "
  6. ↑ Challenges of Freedom of Information “Here is the choice. She is the only choice. It is digital, like the medium that forces choice: 1. Accept copying. 2. Always examine and filter every communication between everyone and everyone else for legality. If case 2 does not take place, an overlay network is formed immediately and case 1 occurs. "
  7. ↑ Data economy is the best data protection ( memento from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) "The PIRATES are calling for politicians to turn away from the idea that increasingly concentrated data storage locations must arise in order to create apparent security."
  8. ↑ Data protection, post privacy and the Spackeria in the podcast
  9. ↑ The data protection critical Spackeria: About / Contact “The name is derived from the term“ Post-Privacy-Spackos ”, which Constanze Kurz , press spokeswoman for the Chaos Computer Club, coined at the 27th Chaos Communication Congress as a name for people who do not follow live their data protection standards. There is also a bit of self-irony a la "Critical Hipster" in there. "